A teen drove a car into a sinkhole and escaped by climbing out the back window following heavy rains in southwestern Minnesota.
WCCO-TV reports that the Renville County Sheriff's Office says the sinkhole formed after a culvert under the road washed out. The 16-year-old wasn't injured.
His grandmother, Candace Leopold, says he got his driver's license last month and only had the car for a few weeks when the sinkhole swallowed it Tuesday. She says he was on his way to work at a farm near Redwood Falls, a community about 115 miles (185 kilometers) west of Minneapolis.
The damage to the car wasn't immediately clear.
Information from: WCCO-TV, http://www.wcco.com
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