Dive summary:
- The right wheel of a 20,000-pound recycling truck collapsed into eight-foot deep and 12-15 foot wide sinkhole in Pottsville, Penn.
- A stone arch built in the 1880's, which collapsed earlier in the day, caused the weak patch of road.
- It took a tow truck to get the recycling truck out of the hole, no damage was done to the truck but the street will be closed for a week.
From the article:
The right rear wheel of a Kreitzer Sanitation garbage truck fell into a subsidence Monday morning in front of the Necho Allen building on Mahantongo Street in Pottsville, closing a the first block of the street.
Dan Kelly, the city's superintendent of streets, said a stone arch collapsed about 7:45 a.m.
John Seasock, the driver of the garbage truck, said he was in the vehicle with another worker and they had just stopped at the light at Centre and Mahantongo streets and shortly thereafter noticed something was not right. ...
