© Brian Jackson/Sun-TimesA large sinkhole in the 9600 block of South Houston swallowed three cars following strong overnight storms.
All Olaide Giwa could do was watch helplessly as her new 2013 Dodge Charger plopped into the sinkhole.
The 57-year-old nurse was heading to work in Glenview and had just walked out of her son's home in the 9600 block of South Houston about 5:20 a.m. Thursday when she saw a silver truck whose driver appeared to be having trouble steering.
And then she saw the truck sink into the road, swallowed by a sinkhole that had grown to a 30-foot diameter by early morning.
"I see the car going inside. I say, 'Wait a minute. What's going on?'" she said.
Soon after, the sinkhole swallowed her brother's car, too.
Frantic, Giwa wanted to move her Charger, now on the edge of the sinkhole, but firefighters wouldn't let her.
"I wanted to back up my own car. They say, 'You can't do that. The third one is going in at any time,'" she said.
"Then it went fast. Boom."