PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Crews are trying to restore water to residences after a massive sinkhole swallowed a road in West Oak Lane overnight.
It happened at the intersections of Andrews Avenue and Wister, Middleton, Homer and Rodney streets. The sinkhole had already been there for a couple of months, only a few feet wide. The city had placed concrete barriers in part of the road to block it, allowing most of the intersection to remain open. However, those barriers were swallowed by the sinkhole overnight as it expanded to about 30 feet wide.
Laverne Taylor, who has lived on Rodney Street for 30 years, heard a boom around 3 a.m. A few hours later, her neighbor informed her that the water was shut off…