Part of North Ave shut down after hole forms in middle of road
Part of North Ave is shut down in northwest Atlanta after a hole opened up in the middle of a lane.
Channel 2′s Steve Gehlbach got a close up look at the damage and spoke with a driver who got a flat tire after driving over it.
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'It was literally five feet deep, I could stand in it comfortably,' David Kimbro said.
The hole opened up in an eastbound lane around 8:30 a.m. near Coca-Cola headquarters in northwest Atlanta. Police and watershed crews coned off the lanes.
'None of us saw it. Might have seemed like a shadow, but we didn't see anything,' Kimbro said.
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Kimbro was the unlucky driver who was first to smash into it as he drove to work.
'It sounded like a big clunk…and car started smoking…and just been sitting here for an hour and half,' he told Gehlbach.
A tow truck arrived, but the impact left his front tire crushed.
'Not your average Atlanta pothole?' Gehlbach asked.
'Not at all…never seen anything like that,' Kimbro replied.
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