{"id":351714,"date":"2025-08-17T13:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351714\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:28:14","slug":"key-cardiff-road-blocked-after-large-sinkhole-appears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351714\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Cardiff road blocked after large sinkhole appears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency services were sent to Maes-Y-Coed after the hole appeared on Sunday morning<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_WML_170825_Cardiff_Sink_Hole_04JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Sinkhole\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The sinkhole on Maes-Y-Coed road(Image: Mark Lewis)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A key route in<a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/cardiff\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\"> Cardiff<\/a> has been blocked after a large sinkhole appeared in the road. Maes-Y-Coed road in the Heath area of the city is closed in both directions after a sinkhole opened up on Sunday morning, August 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">South Wales Fire and Rescue Service put a cordon in place shortly after emergency services were alerted to the hole. Traffic monitoring site Inrix reports that the road is closed between the A469 <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/caerphilly\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Caerphilly<\/a> Road and Armoury Drive, near the Lidl supermarket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">One motorist who was travelling from Roath to Caerphilly on Sunday morning narrowly avoided the hole. He was driving past before the emergency services arrived. Never miss a Cardiff story by <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=04b7baad-60af-4999-8f27-3ec3c1e7d11e&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">signing up to our daily newsletter here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_WML_170825_Cardiff_Sink_Hole_03JPGjpgole.jpg\" alt=\"Sinkhole\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>(Image: Mark Lewis)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He said: &#8220;It looked like it has just appeared and we were lucky to notice it and managed to avoid it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;We pulled up so we could raise the alarm and called 101. The hole appeared to be very deep and we could hear water running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Hopefully they will be able to get it fixed as quickly as possible because it is a very busy road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_WML_170825_Cardiff_Sink_Hole_11JPG.jpg\" alt=\"Fire engine\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Emergency services closed the road after the sinkhole was reported(Image: Mark Lewis)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">WalesOnline has contacted <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/all-about\/cardiff\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Cardiff<\/a> Council about the sinkhole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency services were sent to Maes-Y-Coed after the hole appeared on Sunday morningThe sinkhole on Maes-Y-Coed road(Image: Mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,12502,4884,29591,760,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-351714","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cardiff","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-heath","12":"tag-traffic-and-travel","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115044346061005483","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}