LONDON -- A driver found out a puddle wasn't just a puddle the hard way after her car ended up in a sinkhole in Nottinghamshire.
Sally Hall was driving in Epperstone on Sunday morning when her car was sucked across the road into a sinkhole after a water pipe burst.
"It was quite dark and there was a puddle of water. I thought it was a drain overflowing so went to drive through it,” the Telegraph reports.
"Then all of a sudden the car was sucked across the road and I ended up in the hole in the road."
The sinkhole was an extreme example of what happens when a water pipe bursts, water company Severn Trent said about the incident, according to the BBC.
Thousands of homes were left without water in the region, but the company said Monday in a statement on its website that all customers should have water back in their taps.
Sinkholes, which are collapsed or bowl-shaped features, form when there is a void underground, creating a depression in the land where everything around the area drains.