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VIDEO: Driver describes watching a sinkhole swallow his Toyota Camry

 
A St. Louis police officer on Thursday looks over a large hole in Sixth Street in St. Louis that swallowed a Toyota Camry. It isn't immediately clear what caused the collapse.
 [Christian Gooden | St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP]
A St. Louis police officer on Thursday looks over a large hole in Sixth Street in St. Louis that swallowed a Toyota Camry. It isn't immediately clear what caused the collapse. [Christian Gooden | St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP]
Published June 29, 2017

ST. LOUIS — A man who scored what he thought was a prime parking spot in downtown St. Louis says he returned from a trip to the gym with his fiancee to find his car swallowed by a sinkhole.

Jordan Westerberg tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that when the couple came back to his Toyota Camry shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday and didn't see it, they figured it had been towed.

Street workers gathered at the parking space was a tipoff something was amiss. That's when 25-year-old Westerberg found the vehicle in the gaping hole, about 20 feet deep and 8 to 10 feet across.

It isn't immediately clear what caused the collapse.

No injuries were reported.