Motorist lands in a hole lot of trouble

A Chinese motorist found himself in the world's biggest potholewhen the road suddenly collapsed beneath him sending his car down a 10ft chasm.

Surveyors believe a broken water mains washed out the ground underneath the road in Weifang, Shandong province, causing it to collapse under motorist Che Ling.

"There was a sharp, loud crack and the road just fell away and swallowed up the car," said one witness.

A local Town Hall engineering official said: "The fault would have been impossible to detect until the road collapsed.

"Now we have to close the square to test for other sink holes."