Rescue crews rescued a Long Island woman after her car was swallowed by a former cesspool that opened up the ground.
A woman's car was swallowed up by a huge sinkhole right in her own driveway in Rockville Centre.
"It's really hard to describe, it's just all of sudden swish, and stop," said Gail Sorrentino, sinkhole victim.
Gail Sorrentino took a very strange ride in her car Friday afternoon and she didn't even have to leave her driveway.
"I pulled in I'm looking at the arbor, and then I'm looking at the dirt," Sorrentino said, "The car just went down with no sound, no booms, no rattles no nothing."
After pulling into the spot where she's parked every day for years, she found herself and her car suddenly underground after the earth swallowed her Subaru with Gail still in the driver's seat.
There was nothing she could do but call 911.
"I said, 'I'm calling from my car which is in a sinkhole in my driveway.' And there was this pause at the other end. And she said, 'Ma'am?' I said, 'I'm in the car!'" Sorrentino said.
"You handled yourself very well," said John Thorp, Rockville Centre Fire Chief.
"Thank you!" Sorrentino said.
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