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Cornwall Resident Finds Vehicle in Unexpected Ground Collapse
The first sign the local man received of his predicament was when a neighbor urgently banged on his door and informed him his cherished Mini had fallen into a hole.
"I stepped outside anticipating a small pothole under a wheel or something similar. But when I went out to take a look, I understood, oh, that truly is a significant cavity," he explained.
His vehicle had dropped into a 3-metre wide gap, likely caused by a mineshaft collapse, and McKenzie has endured 25 days caught in a bureaucratic "difficult situation" trying to figure out how to retrieve his Mini.
The Core Issue: Unregistered Property
The complication is that the property isn't registered. The authorities has said it can't remove the barriers cordoning off the sinkhole until property rights had been established. "It's quite a difficult situation," said McKenzie, 36, a self-employed creative. "It's red tape everywhere."
McKenzie has lived in the area in Redruth for about a decade and in fact has a parking space beside his house, but it is not wide enough to be useful so he started leaving his car outside a nearby bakery. He had checked with both the bakery and the local authority that he wouldn't get a parking fine.
"I'd finally felt like I was making progress, I had a reliable small vehicle that was fuel-efficient and simple to keep on the road. It signified I could at last focus on trying to put money aside to take my daughter on her dream trip to Japan someday. She's always wanted to go."
The Incident and Aftermath
Then arrived that knock on the door on a Saturday in November. "The person next door was quite panicked. The officers arrived and secured the zone off. We all had to stay in the homes because we can't get out without passing by the hole. The highways people arrived, put the fence up, and then they came out and put a second fence up around it as well."
It is believed the hole may be an unfortunate legacy of a historic local mine, a abandoned mining site.
McKenzie believed he would be separated from his vehicle for a few days. But days have now become weeks.
A Potential Solution
An conclusion may be approaching. The authorities has stated it will cooperate with McKenzie to – temporarily – lift the fences to permit the Mini to be recovered. He commented: "They have agreed to work with my insurer's retrieval crew and try to arrange a day and an acceptable way of extracting it that ensures no anybody at danger."
The car has been significantly harmed and is likely to be written off. "On the bright side I can say my Mini met its end in a memorable way – not everyone can say their car was eaten by the ground beneath them," McKenzie noted.
Council Response
A spokesperson from the authorities said it sympathised with McKenzie. But it said: "This collapse did not occur on public property. We have secured the location and informed the vehicle owner that we will arrange to temporarily remove the fence to enable him to retrieve the vehicle.
"Since no one owns the land, our safety measures will stay up until property ownership has been determined, and we will continue to observe the vicinity to guarantee everyone's security."
Carl Goodwin
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