This week’s heavy rains opened up a hole in a downtown Atlanta street. A car crashed into it, sending the driver to the hospital early Monday morning.
Channel 2′s Steve Gehlbach spoke with the victim and neighbors who say it was a problem leading up to the accident.
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A metal plate now covers this spot on Currier Street, just off Courtland Ave in downtown Atlanta.
“But it wasn’t there before. I had my lights on, I would have seen it,” Jamela Franklin told Gehlbach.
Franklin first thought she hit something as she left work a little after 6 a.m. Monday.
“Then I felt my car sink.”
Later in the morning, the hole looked a couple of feet deep and four to five feet width.
Franklin says the impact was so hard her airbag deployed and she went to the hospital to get checked out. She’s still working through her insurance, but the car appears to be totaled.
“Everyone goes up and down this area all the time,” Janiece Allen said.