Small landslide isolates 50 residents in Wentworth-Nord, Que.

About 50 residents are isolated and a driver was injured after a small landslide broke a culvert, leaving a gaping hole in a road in Wentworth-Nord on the night of Sunday to Monday in Quebec's Laurentians region. 

The landslide is likely the result of heavy rain over the weekend, said the region's director of public security Jean Brazeau. 

The driver was sent to hospital with minor injuries after her vehicle fell into the three-metre-deep hole on du Domaine Street. The opening is about four metres by four, said Brazeau.

Part of the road was washed out, cutting off several homes from the rest of the town. 

The driver thought the patch of black she saw on the street ahead was repaired asphalt, explained her partner Claude Sauriol. 

"By the time she realized it was a hole, she fell in," he said.

He said his partner's car was suddenly surrounded by running water, but she was able to get out through her vehicle's driver door.

A rescue team from Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts was able to reach the area by zodiac and is door-knocking to alert affected residents along Grand Lac Noir and on Flavio and Louise streets.

Brazeau said repairing the road should take officials the entire day.