She asked her co-worker to snap this photo, because she didn’t think anyone would believe her. Rontavia Turner was doing something she does nearly every day – boarding the bus home from work, when suddenly the ground opened up beneath her.
“It was kinda like the grass just crumbled,” she recalled to WMAR-2 News’ Elizabeth Worthington.
She was stuck all the way up to her mid-thigh.
“The fear was, I’m about to get swallowed by this – what I’m assuming now is some sort of sinkhole,” she said. “So trying not to go into panic, needless to say, was difficult, because there was no end. My leg was underground but it’s dangling so I don’t know how far that hole actually goes.”
It happened at a bus stop by 11350 McCormick Road in Hunt Valley at the end of October. We submitted a Public Information Act request to Baltimore County Department of Public Works, inquiring about any road work that may have been done in that area. The DPW sent us a work order from a water service restoration in May 2022. Photos show how crews had to rip up part of the road for the work, right at the bus stop where Turner fell.
“This was out of my control, but I’m the one who has to suffer financially,” she told WMAR-2 News…