A woman was rescued after crashing into a five-metre deep hole while riding her motorcycle.

Sunisa Samnakorn, 26, broke her left leg after she fell into a water-filled pit which was part of a construction site in Nonthaburi, Thailand, on Tuesday night (Dec 22).

The building work was part of a project by the Metropolitan Electricity Authority of Thailand, in which a concrete block, one meter wide and three metres long, had been removed.

Orange traffic cones and lights were placed around the block as a warning signal.

However, Sunisa was riding her motorcycle at around 1 AM when she failed to notice the warnings rode straight into the deep hole - plunging into the depths below.

Paramedics arrived with rescue workers who climbed into the sewer to lift her out on a stretcher. She was taken to hospital where she is recovering from the accident but she was not seriously hurt.

Ton, from the Ruamkatanyu Rescue Foundation, said: ''The hole is really deep and there's a lot of dirty water at the bottom. The lady is very lucky she was not seriously hurt.

''She only said that she did not see the whole and crashed into it.''