Crime & Safety
Sinkhole Swallows Jeep In Chicago's Lake View East Area
One man was hospitalized after the early Monday incident.
CHICAGO, IL — One passenger was hospitalized early Monday after a driver's Jeep "just sunk" into a hole that opened in a Lake View East roadway.
The sinkhole swallowed the vehicle around 4 a.m. near the intersection of Broadway and Roscoe streets, according to an NBC report.
“We were literally driving home, we were just having a good night and all of a sudden my car just sunk, the road sunk underneath it and we were in a puddle,” driver Jeffery Garcia told reporters.
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The passenger was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment after his head reportedly hit the windshield.
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