30 Nov, 2017 @ 13:33
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Cars dive into holes as roads collapse in Andalucia following heavy rainfall

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VERTICAL: Car crashes into hole in the ground
VERTICAL: Car crashes into hole in the ground

THE heavy rainfall has caused several roads to collapse in Cadiz.

Towns like Medina Sidonia (right), have seen the asphalt on their roads fall through, leaving giant gaping holes.

The asphalts have collapsed after the storms ruptured water pipelines, causing landslides.

The Citroën Xsara became almost vertical when it nosedived into one of the holes.

Luckily the driver suffered no injuries and was able to get out of the vehicle on his own, although Policia Local and bomberos still rushed to the scene.

During the early hours of this morning firefighters in Cádiz made 30 departures as a result of incidents due to rain, 18 of them in Jerez de la Frontera.

 

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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