Road closed - hole in Clifton Road

At present Clifton Road at the junction with Bridge Road is closed. The road has collapsed at a sewer. The council have been called out and will be on site soon. In the meantime the police have closed the one-way part of Clifton Road and have a squad car sat at the junction to stop people driving into the hole.

UPDATE

Despite looking quite small on the surface the hole turned out to be 1.5m by 1;5m and 600mm deep on closer inspection. Council contractors went straight to site after the hole was reported at 7:57 this morning and dug the hole out to solid ground. They then filled the hole with concrete and finished the surface with tarmac. The road was open again by midday.

Thames Water was contacted to ask them to put a camera down the sewer line to try to identify the cause of the damage but they did not turn up. Unfortunately I have been told that this is often the case.