Sinkhole swallows man’s leg as he crosses street
Aman was walking across a Brooklyn intersection weekend when a sinkhole suddenly opened up beneath him — swallowing nearly his entire leg, officials said.
The unidentified pedestrian was crossing near Myrtle Avenue and Walworth Street in Clinton Hill when his foot broke through the pavement and he became trapped at around 11:15 a.m., according to police.
Cellphone video from the scene shows the man’s right leg submerged beneath the street — from the thigh down — as firefighters work to free him.
Rescuers eventually pulled his limb out and took him to Woodhull Hospital with a minor injury, according to officials.
It appeared that the man lost his sneaker in the hole.
“It almost looked like he didn’t have a leg,” explained Joe Grunbaum, who works with the man at the nearby car repair shop, Kings County Autobody, Inc.
“He seemed to be in a lot of pain.”
“He said he couldn’t feel his foot,” construction worker Danny Flores, 26, who lives nearby, told DNAinfo.
“I thought he didn’t have no leg when I first saw him,” Flores recalled. “It’s scary because his whole body could have fallen in.”
Just the sight alone was enough to make bystanders cringe, according to one witness.
Culled from
nypost.com