A 30ft deep sinkhole that suddenly opened up on the driveway of a property in High Wycombe recently swallowing a parked car.
Nobody was in the VW Lupo when the ground collapsed. The crater was so deep that the car could not be seen. The car has now been removed, and the sinkhole has been filled with concrete.
In this gallery, IBTimesUK looks at sinkholes and giant craters around the world.
A giant sinkhole in Guatemala City on May 31, 2010. A hole about 65ft (20m) across and 100ft (30 m) deep suddenly opened up, swallowing a three-storey factoryReutersPamela Knox waits to be rescued after a massive sinkhole opened up underneath her car in Toledo, Ohio on July 3, 2013. Fire officials said a water main burst caused the road to collapse suddenlyReutersA man examines a 12-metre-deep (40 feet) sinkhole that opened up under the bed of a pensioner in Guatemala City, on July 19, 2011. Inocenta del Rosal Hernandez, 65, awoke to a loud noise and found the earth under her bed had imploded, creating a perfectly circular pitReutersDemolition crews and Hillsborough County Fire Department watch as the house where Jeffrey Bush was swallowed by a sinkhole, is demolished in Seffner, Florida, on March 3, 2013. Florida rescue workers ended their efforts to recover the body of Bush, who disappeared into the sinkhole that swallowed his bedroom while he sleptReutersConcrete is poured into a 4.5 metre (15 feet) wide sinkhole that swallowed a car on the driveway of a house in Walters Ash, near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, on February 6, 2014ReutersThe remains of a home at the bottom of a huge hole in the village of Nachterstedt, on July 18, 2009. Three residents were missing in the eastern German village after their lakeside home and another building were destroyed when a 350-metre stretch of shoreline gave wayReutersA massive 200 x 240 feet section of collapsed road is pictured in the Mount Soledad neighbourhood of La Jolla near San Diego, California, on October 3, 200. A landslide damaged or destroyed six homes and forced the evacuation of at least 20 othersGettyA Los Angeles fireman looks under a fire truck stuck in a sinkhole in the Valley Village neighbourhood on September 8, 2009APA Cadillac Escalade sits at the bottom of a sinkhole in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 23, 2010APA tanker rears out of a caved-in area on a road in Xian, China, on July 27, 2013ReutersCars lie in a sinkhole after a road collapsed into an underground cave system, in the southern Italian town of Gallipoli on March 30, 2007ReutersA sinkhole near Qingquan primary school in Ningxiang, Hunan province, China, on June 15, 2010. The fast-growing hole was 150 metres (492ft) wide and 50 metres (164ft) deep and had destroyed 20 housesReutersRescue workers retrieve the body of a victim of a road cave-in in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on May 21, 2013ReutersWorkers prepare to pull a truck from a sinkhole that opened up on a residential street in Chicago on April 18, 2013. The driver was hospitalised after driving into the 15ft-deep hole . Two other vehicles were also swallowed by the sinkholeAPWorkers repair a cave-in area on a road in Xian, Shaanxi province, China, on May 27, 2012ReutersThe damaged Gran Marical de Ayacucho highway in the state of Miranda outside Caracas, Venezuela, on December 1, 2010. Thousands of Venezuelans fled their homes after landslides and swollen rivers killed at least 21 people and threatened to cause more damageReutersA crater that appeared in the central German town of Schmalkalden, on November 1, 2010. A huge hole measuring 30 by 40 metres opened up in the middle of a residential estateReutersFirefighters work to rescue a camel named Moses, who got stuck in a sinkhole in Oregon City, on September 14, 2010AP
