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© David PatersonWhen this happens to your truck, you know you're having a really bad day.
A driver doing some errands had a nasty surprise Saturday morning when a sinkhole suddenly opened up beneath the truck he was driving.

The man, an off-duty police officer, had just picked up some garden furniture from an outlet in a office complex on Ambler Dr. As he was making his way out of the parking lot, he drove through what appeared to be a small puddle.

It turned out to be something much worse.

As he drove over it, the ground beneath his wheels gave way, tipping the truck into a five-foot-deep sinkhole that rapidly started filling with water.

The driver managed to get himself out of the truck and nobody was injured.

Police, fire crews and tow trucks were called to try to pull the stricken vehicle out of the hole.

Firefighters on the scene said that a water pipe beneath the surface appeared to have ruptured and caused the sinkhole to form.