{"id":172823,"date":"2025-08-24T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172823\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:52:11","slug":"five-foot-sink-hole-caused-by-infrastructure-issue-near-wayside-fixed-early-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172823\/","title":{"rendered":"Five-foot sink hole caused by infrastructure issue near Wayside fixed early Sunday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HOUSTON, Texas  (KTRK) &#8212; A giant hole in the middle of the road in an east Houston neighborhood has since been fixed, according to neighbors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><strong class=\"vtkaO \">The video above is from the<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/post\/pavement-collapses-sylvan-road-idylwood-neighborhood-southeast-houston-causing-deep-hole-car-gets-stuck-inside\/17628147\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> initial report. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The pavement collapsed near Sylvan Road in the Idylwood neighborhood. When an ABC13 crew arrived, the hole was filled entirely with water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">People in the area said at least two cars, as seen in the video above, fell into it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;The car just kind of sank into the hole, and it&#8217;s sort of sticking out a little bit. There are people trying to help get it out, and it was just wild,&#8221; Idylwood resident Candice Hurtado said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Houston Public Works said the pavement collapsed because of an underground infrastructure issue after a water leak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials said the water in the area was shut off as crews worked overnight to repair it. On Sunday morning, residents in the area said the hole had been filled.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A giant hole in the middle of the road in an east Houston neighborhood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[98571,4345,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-172823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-98571","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115086199542955916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}