Six trailer homes in Holiday were evacuated Monday morning after a large sinkhole opened under a driveway and swallowed a car.

Pasco County Fire Rescue crews responded to 1728 Torch Drive around 10:45 a.m. after a hole measuring four feet wide and four feet deep developed at the top of the driveway.

Nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution, and by 2 p.m., the hole had grown to 10 feet in diameter and 10 feet deep.

A car parked on the driveway had fallen in, nose-first.

Neighbors who saw the car fall into the hole say it was like quicksand.

"The lady next-door motioned for me to come outside, and when I got outside, we noticed that the other lady's car, the one tire of the back end, the car was, like, tilted up, and I thought, 'Geez, maybe she had a flat tire,' ” said Sherry Gasley, who was among those evacuated as a precaution.

Officials did not initially call the hole a sinkhole, but geologists have since confirmed that it is a sinkhole. 

Experts are working to figure out what caused the ground to drop. They believe old aerials from the 1940s showing the same spot might lend a clue.

This new sinkhole may actually be an old sinkhole making another appearance all these years later. Early data shows this sinkhole may be isolated to just this area.

“It’s still moving very slowly. But I don’t think it’s going to expand. Maybe it will affect the other two adjacent trailers, but I don’t think it’s going to go beyond that,” said Sandy Nettles, geologist.

Officials say said that since the hole is on private property, the owner's insurance company will be responsible for doing a geological survey and making repairs.

County crews are working on a sewer lift station near the property, but officials said there's no evidence yet that the work caused the hole.

The Pasco County building inspector's office has condemned the affected home until it can be "remediated." County emergency management officials recommended that the residents of the other nearby homes that were evacuated not return to them until the ground has been declared safe.

The Red Cross has been called to help the affected residents find temporary shelter.

The manager of the mobile home park said he is putting residents up in a hotel and is getting a rental car for the woman whose car was swallowed.

No injuries were reported.