A man and his family were driving along a historic road before plummeting into a sinkhole in Kansas.
Now the man says they’re lucky they made it out alive.
The man was in a Ford F-250 truck traveling in Princeton along with his wife, their daughter and grandson, when he saw what looked like a shadow on Friday, April 24, around 5:30 p.m. local time.
After heavy rainfall in the area, the sinkhole developed on the 96-year-old bridge in the 1600 block of John Brown Road, Franklin County public works director Jeff Welton told the outlet.
“I was out this morning with the engineers,” Welton added. “They’re pretty confident, as well as I am, that this was due to the recent storms and the weather, extreme rains that we got.”
Although the man eventually realized the silhouette was a sinkhole, he wasn’t able to avoid it, he told the outlet.
The two women in the truck were taken to AdventHealth in Ottawa, the outlet reported.
As for the bridge, which was last inspected in July 2025, the words “Do Not Cross” were spray-painted at the entry point.
Wait, they painted “Do Not Cross” on the concrete and called it good? Only in Kansas!