Driver has lucky escape after sinkhole swallows up car onbusy China motorway

In another incident, a truck overturned and its driver was injured after a hole appeared in themiddle of a motorway in Zheijiang Province on the nation's eastern coast.

Trapped: The vehicle is stuck after a sinkhole opened up in Nanchang City

In China, 600 villagers were evacuated after four huge voids opened up in Guangxi Province.

A spokesman for the freeway management office said experts on site suspected that the suddencollapse of an underground karst cave created by eroded limestone caused the sinkhole, but theinvestigation is ongoing.

The vehicle was trapped, with its front wheels sunk into the chasm, when the gap, measuring about13ft-wide, suddenly appeared.

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Three smaller holes were discovered in May in southwestern Sichuan Province, less than 80 milesfrom the earthquake in 2008 in which 80,000 people died.

More than 35 have been found since April.

Thevehicle is lifted to safety after the busy motorway is closed

A motorist had a lucky escape after his car was swallowed by a sinkhole as he travelled along a busymotorway.

The sinkhole - which is the eighth discovered game of war cheats android in China in the past twoweeks - happened in Nanchang City, capital Jiangxi Province.

The sinkhole measured 20ft deep and 27ft wide.

Common: A truck overturned and its driver was injured after a hole appeared in a road in ZheijiangProvince

Balancing act: The ground opened up in the middle of the car as it travelled along the motorway

It comes after a factory and an entire intersection were gulped down by a 100ft deep and 66ft wide

sinkhole following a tropical storm in Guatemala last month.

Devastation: A factory and intersection were swallowed up by a 66ft-wide sinkhole that opened upafter storms in Guatemala

In Yibin City, about 260 miles from the earthquake's epicentre, 26 larger sinkholes have formed inthe past two months.

By Mail Foreign Service

Updated: 11:16 GMT, 14 June 2010