VIDEO: Crater opens on sidewalk and orthopedic doctor is ‘swallowed’ and hit by wall in ES | South of ES

Crater opens into sidewalk and man passing by is swallowed by the hole

A man walking along the sidewalk in Cachoeiro de Itapemirim, in the south of Espírito Santo, on the morning of this Monday (1st), was swallowed by a crater that opened precisely at the moment when the orthopedic doctor was passing by the place.

The accident happened in the Gilberto Machado neighborhood. City hall reported that the victim is a doctor, but did not disclose his name or age.

The images recorded a man in blue walking with a bag. He passed in front of a lot with no parking signs and then the sidewalk gave way and the man fell into the hole, which appeared “hollow” beneath the floor.

From another angle, it is possible to see that the place was a garage, and when the sidewalk gave way, part of the wall fell onto the hole where the victim was.

A person who was inside the land where the part collapsed ran out to see what happened, and other people who were on the street also went to the hole to try to help.

Another man approached the hole and appeared to try to talk to the victim. Then he began to descend into the hole. Driver Geraldo Mussi was the first to help the victim.

“He arrived, parked the car and went to the hospital to get an exam and came up. The hole sank and the stone fell on top of him. We came and helped him, put him in the ambulance and he was helped”, said the driver.

The doctor was rescued and taken to a private hospital and the city council said that Civil Defense teams went to the scene and isolated the area. There is no information about the victim’s health status.

The water concessionaire BRK was also contacted, and a technical team was on site and found that the incident was not related to the water and sewage networks operated by the concessionaire, which are operational.

“There was a loud noise and everything was on top of him. I went down to get it, the other boy came and helped me get the stone. He was asking for help, the stone on top of him was very heavy”, commented Geraldo.

The person responsible for the sidewalk, owner of the house in front, is lawyer Arthur Buteri. He said there was no sign of risk at the location. Still according to Arthur, an engineer was called to assess what happened.

Firefighters said they were not called to the incident.

Cachoeiro City Hall also said that it is evaluating the causes and will send a team to the site this Monday to see what repairs need to be made and begin the work.