WEST BOYLSTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A West Boylston woman’s trip to the gym went south — literally — after her car fell into a sinkhole Thursday morning.
Irene Ruiz, 32, left her home the morning after remnants of Ida battered the Bay State and tried to navigate her way out of her Worcester Street, causing the front end of the car to fall in around 6:30 a.m., according to fire officials.
“It was collapsing under her. She felt it, she stopped and tried to reverse and then it collapsed,” her fiance John Kenmuir said.
The front bumper and wheels splashed into the stream below the asphalt.
“There’s a stream that normally runs underneath the driveway with a corrugated pipe and the excessive water flow from the rains undermined the driveway and the pipe ultimately collapsed when the vehicle drove over it,” Fire Chief Robert O’Connell explained.
Ruiz managed to get out on her own and a tow company was called in to remove the car.
“She said was a little scared but she called me instantly,” Kenmuir said. “She said, ‘Come out I fell in a hole.”
Now the couple is stranded and unable to drive on or off their property until the damage is repaired.
There were no reported injuries.
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