ATLANTA — Part of North Avenue near Tech Parkway is shut down in northwest Atlanta after a hole opened up in the middle of a lane.
The Atlanta Department of Watershed Management is describing the hole as a sinkhole.
Channel 2′s Steve Gehlbach got a close-up look at the damage and spoke with a driver who got a flat tire after driving over it.
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“It was literally five feet deep, I could stand in it comfortably,” David Kimbro said.
The hole opened up in an eastbound lane around 8:30 a.m. near Coca-Cola headquarters in northwest Atlanta. Police and watershed crews coned off the lanes.
“None of us saw it. Might have seemed like a shadow, but we didn’t see anything,” Kimbro said.
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Kimbro was the unlucky driver who was first to smash into it as he drove to work.
“It sounded like a big clunk…and car started smoking…and just been sitting here for an hour and half,” he told Gehlbach.
A tow truck arrived, but the impact left his front tire crushed.
“Not your average Atlanta pothole?” Gehlbach asked.
“Not at all…never seen anything like that,” Kimbro replied.
Crews say they are taking traffic control measures, but there is no timeline for the road to be fixed and reopened.
Two eastbound lanes are closed. One of the westbound lanes has been repurposed to allow for eastbound travel.
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