Watch pickup truck get plucked from Kitchener sinkhole muck
Andrea Bellemare | CBC News | Posted: February 10, 2016 5:49 PM | Last Updated: February 12, 2016
Driver and passenger escaped from icy water when roadway collapsed under them
Two men on their way to work for the Tri-Green landscaping company escaped from their pickup truck after it was submerged in a flooded sinkhole caused by a water main break on Strasburg Road in Kitchener early Wednesday morning.
"They got wet, they kind of had do some swimming," Russ Langford, owner of Tri-Green said. "The truck filled up with water immediately and they got out through the windows."
The truck had been towing a trailer, which was also tipped partly into the hole.
Water pumps were used for several hours to empty the flooded hole of water before the soaked vehicle was hooked up and plucked from the muck as a light snow fell and temperatures hovered around -5 C.
CBC's Andrea Bellemare shot Periscope live video of the pullout.
Note: Periscope video has expired and is no longer available.