Quarry fall girl leaves hospital

Abi Cosnett is "just glad" to be out of hospital

A Black Country teenager who fell more than 60ft down a quarry last week has been allowed home from Birmingham Children's Hospital.

Abi Cosnett, 14, suffered a broken wrist and leg when she was playing with friends at the Edwin Richards Quarry in Rowley Regis last Tuesday.

The operator of the site, Midland Quarry Products, is holding an inquiry.

Abi's mother, Lynne, says her daughter's memories of what happened are still sketchy.

Trapped

She said: "She remembers being trapped on a ledge but not much before that.

"Abi is upset about it but she's just glad to be out of hospital. She's up and down at the moment and she seems to be in pain when she wakes up."

It is believed the girl was trying to climb the cliff with two friends when she slipped down the quarry bank.

The girl was rescued by a specialist emergency crew

A mountain rescue team used ropes to lower a paramedic and a doctor to Abi on the ledge.

She was treated there before being lowered by stretcher to the base of the rock quarry and then transferred to a waiting air ambulance.

One other child escaped with minor injuries and a third walked away unharmed.

Mrs Cosnett said: "It's out of character for her. I've never known her to go there before. Normally she'll be shopping with friends and she wouldn't go anywhere she wasn't supposed to.

"It was somewhere they shouldn't have been but we've all been children ourselves.

"I kept thinking about what could have happened but it's not worth dwelling on it."

A spokeswoman for Midland Quarry Products said fences were in place around the quarry.