Two Nebraska-Omaha women’s basketball players rescue trapped driver from sinkhole

Key Highlights

• It was enough to read as trouble — maybe a minor fender bender, maybe a flat tire. The closer Borsutzki studied the scene, the less it resembled something ordinary.
• “We need to do something,” she signaled to Kurban, rolling through the light and turning left to park along the curb. A rectangular slab of street had collapsed inward into a sinkhole.
• Two cars teetered at the jagged edge, their noses tipped skyward, almost frozen in the instant before a plunge.
• Beneath them, water tore through a broken pipe, its current grinding out a low roar — and suddenly, Borsutzki and Kurban’s drive home from practice no longer felt routine. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“On the news, it doesn’t look that scary, not that deep,” Borsutzki said.
• “But standing right in front of the hole is — it was scary.”Borsutzki climbed out of the driver’s seat and sprinted toward the rupture in the road before crouching at the edge, a man pinned deep below crying out for help.