Massive 7ft sinkhole opens up on UK street as 15-year-old injured

Sam Foulkes, 15, was near injured aft a immense sinkhole swallowed the crushed beneath him (Image: SWNS)

A schoolboy has shared his fearfulness acquisition aft a monolithic sinkhole swallowed the crushed 7 feet heavy beneath his feet, leaving the teen injured connected his locomotion backmost from class.

Sam Foulkes, 15, was connected his mode location from schoolhouse erstwhile the crushed abruptly opened up beneath him connected Kearsley Road successful Bolton, Greater Manchester.

A passerby pushed to resistance him retired of the knee-deep h2o and had to laic connected the crushed to hoist the teen out.

Sam was raced to hospital, wherever helium was diagnosed with brushed insubstantial harm successful his arm.

Sam said: "My arms are highly sore and I person a mates of cuts and bruises connected my legs and chin and manus arsenic well.

"I inactive consciousness shook up from it, I don't truly retrieve overmuch of it."

Andrea Foulkes, Sam’s mum, says the teen was "very dazed" aft his accident.

She said his schoolhouse shoes and azygous were wholly ruined.

Ms Foulkes said: "The sinkhole, from what we person been told, was astir seven-foot deep. A man who was passing saw Sam disappear.

"He slammed the anchors on, legged it crossed the roadworthy and had to prevarication connected the level and get down and effort and assistance him retired of the hole.

The sinkhole was 7 feet heavy (Image: SWNS)

Sam was near with brushed insubstantial harm (Image: SWNS)

"He was precise dazed and trying to get to his feet. His schoolhouse shoes were wrecked, his azygous was ripped.

"Apparently erstwhile the man helped him out, helium said helium was much acrophobic astir his schoolhouse bag."

Stuart Foulkes, Sam’s dad, has called connected Bolton Council to analyse however this could person happened.

Express.co.uk has contacted Bolton Council for comment.