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The crater that
opened up on Saturday night beneath the parking lot of an IHOP
restaurant in Meridian consumed cars, trucks and SUVs as the
surface dropped about 15 feet, the newspaper said, quoting
Meridian Public Safety Director Buck Roberts.
No one was injured in the incident, the newspaper said.
Gwendolyn Fikes told the paper that a Honda Accord owned by her
daughter was one of the vehicles that fell into the void. Fikes
said she and her daughter were inside the restaurant when the
parking lot opened up.
"We'd been in there about three minutes," Fikes was quoted as
saying. "Then everything went black and we heard a boom."
It was not clear what caused the cave-in, Roberts told the
newspaper, saying engineers and contractors would be on site on
Monday to investigate.
The newspaper said the area that sank was near a storm drain
that empties into a local creek. It quoted an official as saying
that rain may have been a factor.
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, Calif.; Editing by
Peter Cooney)
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