WATCH: Sinkhole Swallows Soda Delivery Truck In Mexico City
A Jarritos-branded soda delivery truck fell into a sinkhole Saturday in Iztapalapa, Mexico City’s most populous borough.Video of the incident that Iztapalapa Mayor Aleida Alavez Ruiz shared with Reuters shows the truck balancing precariously with its front wheels in the air, then plunging backward, swallowed by the earth as the asphalt gives way.(Watch the video
A Jarritos-branded soda delivery truck fell into a sinkhole Saturday in Iztapalapa, Mexico City’s most populous borough.
Video of the incident that Iztapalapa Mayor Aleida Alavez Ruiz shared with Reuters shows the truck balancing precariously with its front wheels in the air, then plunging backward, swallowed by the earth as the asphalt gives way.
(Watch the video in the player above.)
Reuters verified the location of the incident using satellite imagery.
According to Ruiz, no one was injured in the incident, which she speculated befell the truck when the city’s “very old” drainage network collapsed underneath it.
“We arrived minutes after the truck loaded with soft drinks sank, and while we were coordinating preventive actions, the weight ended up sinking it completely,” Ruiz wrote in a post on social media that’s been translated to English.
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“The first reports indicate that it was the drainage network—remember that it is very old—that collapsed. We are waiting for the boom crane that will be in charge of pulling it out. We are keeping an eye on it.”
Subsequent footage published by Ruiz shows a hefty tow truck wheeling the delivery truck slowly away from the hole, and video of Ruiz promising concerned bystanders the gaping sinkhole would be properly remediated.
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