Good morning, and welcome to one of the more terrifying daily possibilities hanging over your head when you leave your house and get into your car: a sinkhole swallowing up you, and your vehicle, with little to no warning.

One driver was lucky to escape with her life on Sunday night after a three-meter-wide sinkhole abruptly opened up on Kuala Lumpur’s Jalan Maharajalela, near Stadium Merdeka, and her yellow Perodua Myvi plunged right in.