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Photos taken at the scene show Mr Wang's car is stranded in a sinkhole measuring about six feet deep
A Chinese driver narrowly escaped death when a sinkhole opened up on a flooded street this week.

The motorist was driving in Lanzhou city, north-western China, in the early hours of September 10 when he felt the ground was shaking.

He managed to escape from the passenger's side before the front of the car was submerged in water, reported the People's Daily Online.

The driver, named only as Wang, was on his way home from another city when accident happened at around 4am.

When he was driving on Dingxi Road, the motorist realised the street was flooded.

At first, Mr Wang thought the flood was caused by heavy rain.

Then he felt that the ground under his car started shaking.

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The next thing he knew, a sinkhole opened up and his car was left half-dangling from the edge of the hole.

Mr Wang tried to escape from the driver's side, but water flooded in as soon as he opened the door.

The man quickly turned to the passenger's side and managed to flee his car successfully.

Seconds after Mr Wang got out of his vehicle, the blue hatchback dropped into the sinkhole and the front part of the car was totally submerged in water.