Hole swallows car in Florida, triggers evacuations

HOLIDAY, Fla. -- Six Tampa Bay-area families were evacuated after a car fell into a hole that developed in a driveway.

CBS affiliate WTSP reports that Anna Maria Boi Jones, 63, noticed the tires of her car seemed to be sinking into the driveway and within 15 minutes, her Hyundai Accent was in the hole.

Pasco County officials say the hole that developed Monday in Holiday was 10 feet wide and 10 feet deep. County spokesman Doug Tobin says engineers had not confirmed that it was sinkhole.

Officials say the mobile home where the hole developed and five others nearby were evacuated as a safety precaution. No one was injured.

Building inspectors have condemned the mobile home on the brink of the hole.

Tobin says the property owner will be responsible for doing a geological survey and fixing the hole. The county is working on a sewer lift station nearby but Tobin says it doesn't appear that the work caused the hole.

But Larry Pickering, the property manager where Jones lives, told WTSP blames the sewer project.

"They think the hole is getting bigger. There's a lot of people in danger. These homes are in danger," he said.