VIDEO & PHOTOS: 'Sinkhole' swallows 12 cars in restaurant car park

Diners at a Mississippi restaurant got a bit of nasty surprise on Saturday evening when the car park opened up in front of them swallowing 12 cars.

Thankfully, no one was injured but the full extent of the damage can be seen from these aerial photos taken by drone.

The Meridian Star reports that the hole outside the IHOP restaurant in Meridian measures about 35 feet wide and 400 feet long. And despite initial suspicions that it was caused by a sinkhole, there are reports that, it was, in fact, caused by an underground storm drain collapsing.