Shocking moment motorcyclist and woman fall into sinkhole in the middle of a street

This is the moment a female motorcycle passenger fell into a sinkhole in the middle of a road in the Colombian seaport city of Barranquilla.

Surveillance footage showed the male biker maneuvering around the crater when the motorcycle suddenly tipped over last Wednesday.

The biker was left lying between the top of the street pavement and motorcycle and somehow maintaining his balance until a male individual helped him.

The woman was not as fortunate, as the impact of the fall caused her to graze her head on the side of the pavement and fall directly into the crater.

The camera showed the woman sitting in the sinkhole and touching her head. 

A surveillance camera in El Bosque, a neighborhood in the Colombian seaport town of Barranquilla, captured the moment a motorcyclist tried to avoid a crater on Wednesday. However, the biker lost control and crashed but avoided falling into the sinkhole. The woman was not as lucky and landed inside the crater

The woman suffered various injuries, including a head wound, while the motorcyclist wasn't hurt

She subsequently stood up and remained in the crater, complaining about the accident and appearing to reject the biker's attempt to pull her out to the surface.

Community activist Felípe Ortiz told La Zona Radio that the woman suffered multiple injuries, including on the head, while the motorcyclist was not harmed.

The road is one of the main transit points leading to the nearest neighborhood hospital. 

'It had been reported several times and we could see this coming,' Ortiz said. 

The crater has gone about one year without being fixed, but the Barranquilla mayor's office announced the repairs had been scheduled to begin Monday

'If you look at the general structure of the (road) it is something very serious, the infrastructure is obsolete and of no use ... It's the cherry on top of the cake.'

Over the weekend, councilman Alexis Castillo told Caracol Radio that the city's Public Works office had known of the crater since last year, but nothing was done to address the issue. 

The office of Mayor Alejandro Char told RCN Television that road repairs were scheduled to take place Monday.

'We have already taken the measurements, we have a contractor and next week we are going to start construction, the walls and the upper slab will be reconstructed,' Public Works secretary, Rafael Lafont, said.