Man's leg 'disappears' down huge pothole in the road during his morning commute to work
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A man's leg partly disappeared down a huge pothole in the road during his morning commute to work.
Matthew Pannhausen stopped to take a snap of colleague Dean Dunhill standing knee-deep in the crater Hornsea, East Yorkshire.
Both workers build roads for a living, but stressed they played no role in the huge pothole forming, reports the Hull Live .
Matthew joked: "We didn't do this road, honest!.
"I've been in the construction game for 20 years and I can tell just by looking at it that it's a good 800mm deep. It's deeper around the edges where Dean was able to get his foot in.
"To us, it looks like someone has recently repaired a pothole.
(Image: Hull Daily Mail WS)
"It isn't a temporary patch-up, because a neat piece of Tarmac has been laid. It looked pretty tidy to me. There has obviously been an issue and it's opened up."
Matthew, from North Frodingham near Driffield, had been driving with his friend to a construction site in Wakefield.
He added: "Every car was driving over it.
"You would not have wanted to go over it on a motorbike. You would have come off, especially if the rest of the Tarmac had given way."
Dean added: "I thought it was quite funny, but it's dangerous."
In a statement, East Riding Council said: "The hole which has appeared in the road surface on Seaton Road, Hornsea, near the junction with Bewholme Lane, has been caused by a collapsed surface water culvert.
"Our highways team was made aware of the hole this morning by one of our emergency officers and we made the road safe by installing temporary traffic lights at the site and beginning investigation works today (Tuesday).
"We are hoping to complete the culvert and road repairs by the end of Thursday this week, hopefully keeping the road open, under traffic signals, while the work is carried out."