A 12-foot-sinkhole swallowed a man's car as he was driving to work Saturday morning on Clyde Drive near Lem Turner Road.
JEA said the car was spinning around in circles in the sinkhole when they arrived at the scene.
The driver wasn't hurt, but was shaken up.
"Next thing I know I just heard something go 'bam,' and the car just went up and under and started spinning," Tyrone Oakes said.
He said he climbed out of the driver's seat and on top of his car until the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department was able to pull him out of the hole.
"I was sitting on top of my car. They handed me the lifeline long pole, told me to jump, when I jumped I didn't feel the bottom," he said.
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