Giant west-end sinkhole swallows car, shuts down neighbouring building
Posted April 1, 2015 9:10 am.
Last Updated April 1, 2015 9:41 am.
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The ground opened up in a west-end parking lot on Wednesday morning taking a car down with it.
Mario, the landlord of a building at Industry Street and Todd Baylis Boulevard, was driving in the parking lot when a sinkhole opened beneath his car.
The doors were already sealed from the rising water and muck, forcing Mario to escape through his window and onto the car’s roof.
“Once I was out it was actually good to be alive,” Mario told CityNews.
He described the sinking feeling “like you’re in an elevator, going down to the basement.”
The building has been evacuated out of fears for its stability.
Police said the sinkhole is not causing any major traffic delays.
Metrolinx has confirmed the sinkhole is not related to the nearby Egliton LRT construction.
Fears of a sinkhole near the Metrolinx construction site shut down a portion of Eglinton earlier this month.