Sinkhole swallows car in London street

A car has fallen into a sinkhole which emerged in the middle of the night in a London street, but luckily no one was in it at the time.

Picture tweeted by the Metropolitan Police showing a car which has partially disappeared down a sinkhole in Woodland Terrace in Greenwich, south-east London. Source: AAP

A car has fallen into a sinkhole in a residential street in London in the middle of the night.

Police were called to Woodland Terrace in Greenwich about 3.30am on Thursday.

Officers discovered a blue people carrier, which had been parked outside Benefice of Charlton St Thomas' Church, partially in the hole.

A police spokesman said no one had been injured in the incident.