Story By: John Feng, Sub-Editor:  Joseph Golder, Agency: Asia Wire Report   

Video Credit: AsiaWire

This footage shows a bungling female Chinese Uber driver and her two unlucky passengers stranded at the bottom of a 22-foot-deep roadwork pit after she was filmed plunging her taxi into the hole.

Traffic camera footage from the town of Hengli, which is in Dongguan City in China’s southern Guangdong Province, shows the as yet unnamed taxi driver travelling straight on the West Ring Road.

The woman who reportedly works for Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi, which bought out Uber’s China operations in 2016, fails to notice the roadwork site cordoned off with orange high-visibility crash cushions.

She slams her taxi straight into the crash attenuators, drives over them and then plunges down the construction pit measuring a reported 7 metres (22 feet) deep, the video dated 17th December shows.

Footage taken by witnesses in the aftermath of the freak accident shows the Didi cabbie and her two passengers standing in muddy water at the bottom of the pit, with her taxi badly damaged during the accident.

The trio were rescued by the fire service using ladders and ropes.

They were treated in an arriving ambulance and not found to have suffered any life-threatening injuries, Dongguan police said.

The authorities were still investigating the incident at the time of writing.

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