Texas officer dies after car plummets into sinkhole.
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Off-duty Sheriff Deputy Dora Linda Nishihara died after her car fell into a sinkhole in San Antonio, Texas.
A police officer in San Antonio, Texas, has died after her car fell into a sinkhole Sunday night.
Dora
Linda Nishihara, a Bexar County Sheriff Deputy, was off-duty at the
time of the fatal crash,
according to a post on the Bexar County
Sheriff's Office Twitter page. Two other people were injured.
@BexarCoSheriff
We are heartbroken to confirm Deputy Dora Linda (Solis) Nishihara passed away after
Nishihara, who had worked as a reserve
deputy for seven years, had transitioned into a part-time
deputy role at
the Bexar County Courthouse, Bexar Sheriff Susan Pamerleau said in a
statement.
"My heart and prayers go out to the family involved in this tragedy," San Antonio Mayor Ivy R. Taylor
said in a statement.
Emergency crews used cranes to lift the cars out of the sinkhole.
Shortly after 7:30 p.m. Sunday night,
Nishihara's car was headed down Quintana Road when it crashed
into a
12-foot-deep sinkhole, CNN affiliate WOAI reported. Rushing water quickly poured into the car from a sewer main. Soon, the vehicle submerged.
By
Monday morning, emergency responders shifted from a rescue to a
recovery mission, during which emergency workers attempted to pull the
vehicles out of the sinkhole.
"We suffered a few collapses that
widened the sinkhole, and our technical rescue team firefighters were
exposed to raw sewage at a fast, flowing rate, as well as very cold
water," Chief Charles Hood of the San Antonio Fire Department told WOAI.
Two other people were injured.
San Antonio Councilman Rey Saldana has since called for action in order to avoid similar tragedies
in the future.
"We must identify the origins of the problem that caused yesterday's sinkhole incident," Saldana
said in a statement.
Shortly after 7:30 p.m. Sunday night,
Nishihara's car was headed down Quintana Road when it crashed
into a
12-foot-deep sinkhole, CNN affiliate WOAI reported. Rushing water quickly poured into the car from a sewer main. Soon, the vehicle submerged.
By
Monday morning, emergency responders shifted from a rescue to a
recovery mission, during which emergency workers attempted to pull the
vehicles out of the sinkhole.
"We suffered a few collapses that
widened the sinkhole, and our technical rescue team firefighters were
exposed to raw sewage at a fast, flowing rate, as well as very cold
water," Chief Charles Hood of the San Antonio Fire Department told WOAI.
Two other people were injured.
San Antonio Councilman Rey Saldana has since called for action in order to avoid similar tragedies
in the future.
"We must identify the origins of the problem that caused yesterday's sinkhole incident," Saldana
said in a statement.
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