{"id":396002,"date":"2026-08-03T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396002\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T00:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:56:08","slug":"pickup-truck-swallowed-after-broken-water-main-triggers-massive-20-foot-sinkhole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/396002\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickup truck swallowed after broken water main triggers massive 20-foot sinkhole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A driver escaped serious injury after a pickup truck plunged into a massive sinkhole in Beaumont, Texas, early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver of a black Ford F-150 was driving through the area when the street suddenly gave way and collapsed. <\/p>\n<p>The sinkhole, estimated at 20 feet wide and 20 feet deep, was filled with several feet of water gushing from a broken water main.<\/p>\n<p>The truck became wedged at a 45-degree angle, with the front of the pickup against a large piece of concrete that prevented it from falling deeper into the hole. <\/p>\n<p>The driver was not seriously injured and managed to crawl out.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was pulled out of the sinkhole, and city workers repaired the leak Sunday afternoon and restored water service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; A driver escaped serious injury after a pickup truck plunged into a massive sinkhole in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-396002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}