Scooter rider drives straight into sinkhole

A scooter rider is counting the cost of his lack of awareness after driving directly into a sinkhole.

This hapless Chinese man was caught on camera plunging  down a huge opening moments after the road in front of him collapsed.

The incident happened in Beihai, a city in southern China some 350km west of Hong Kong.

The rider was apparently distracted by his mobile phone and clearly doesn’t see the 5m wide hole before it’s too late.

Happily, he was able to climb out of the hole and was relatively unscathed.