A holiday family outing in Texas took a frightening turn when a 12-year-old girl became trapped after a sand hole collapsed on her — but she ultimately walked away unharmed.
Around 5 p.m. local time on Thursday, Nov. 27, emergency crews were called to reports of a child “trapped after a cave in” about 30 miles north of Austin, the Woodland Fire Department (WFD) said in a statement on Facebook.
Firefighters, medics and deputies from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office were directed to a sand bar on the west bank of Panther Creek, just south of a pedestrian bridge, where the girl had been digging in the sand during a family outing. A large hole she was excavating suddenly gave way, collapsing and burying her…