BAKERSFIELD,CA- Crews had to fish for David Williams' Cadillac Friday morning.
"I came over here to find that my car was in a hole," said Williams.
Williams got a phone call from his dad around 5:30 a.m., telling him his car had been swallowed by a sinkhole.
"I'm heartbroken. I'm sad. That was my baby. So, I don't know what to do now," said Williams.
Emergency crews responded to check a deteriorating sewer line.
"The top of the sewer line that's running through there was flowing and took the dirt out from underneath the asphalt, and it could have been going on probably a few months. It just took the dirt away and eventually the asphalt gave way," said Bakersfield Streets Superintendent Michael Connor.
Connor says that type of deterioration is found in older concrete lines, eroded by gas from the sewer line. The crews routinely check underground lines, but say it's difficult to predict where problems will be.
"Hard to say because anything that's underground is really hard to know. I've seen voids under the ground with a hole that's the size of a quarter on top and 13 foot deep and 13 foot round below," said Connor.
Connor says because the sewer line didn't burst, it's running normally. He says no one in the neighborhood is affected. Except for Williams, who hopes the city will replace his Caddy.
"Or if it's able to be fixed, fix it," said Williams.
"I came over here to find that my car was in a hole," said Williams.
Williams got a phone call from his dad around 5:30 a.m., telling him his car had been swallowed by a sinkhole.
"I'm heartbroken. I'm sad. That was my baby. So, I don't know what to do now," said Williams.
Emergency crews responded to check a deteriorating sewer line.
"The top of the sewer line that's running through there was flowing and took the dirt out from underneath the asphalt, and it could have been going on probably a few months. It just took the dirt away and eventually the asphalt gave way," said Bakersfield Streets Superintendent Michael Connor.
Connor says that type of deterioration is found in older concrete lines, eroded by gas from the sewer line. The crews routinely check underground lines, but say it's difficult to predict where problems will be.
"Hard to say because anything that's underground is really hard to know. I've seen voids under the ground with a hole that's the size of a quarter on top and 13 foot deep and 13 foot round below," said Connor.
Connor says because the sewer line didn't burst, it's running normally. He says no one in the neighborhood is affected. Except for Williams, who hopes the city will replace his Caddy.
"Or if it's able to be fixed, fix it," said Williams.