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Giant Pothole Swallowed Taxi

A taxi driver suffered only minor injuries when the Isuzu Trooper he was driving plunged into an unmarked, twometer deep by three-meter wide pothole near Nicoya, in the northwestern province of Guanacaste, in late February. The Trooper had to be removed with a crane.

 

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