Little Lucy’s lucky escape

Friday 23rd July 2010, 6:00PM BST.

Lucy Conway
Lucy Conway

Little Lucy Conway survived a 20ft fall from a bedroom window – thanks to a pile of bin bags filled with soft toys which cushioned her fall, her mother said today.

Karla Jones said it was a “miracle” her five-year-old daughter escaped with just a bruise on her arm in the fall from the upstairs window of their maisonette in Albion Parade, Wall Heath.

And the first thing dazed Lucy said as her mother rushed to her aid was “am I in trouble?”.

Lucy was flown by air ambulance to Birmingham Children’s Hospital and kept in overnight as a precaution.

Today lively Lucy, could not wait to go to Dawley Brook Primary School in Kingswinford, to show she was fine after her fall on Wednesday.

Miss Jones, aged 25, said her daughter  went to the open window because she heard a noise. Miss Jones was in the kitchen preparing tea when younger daughter Grace, aged two, shouted Lucy had fallen.

“Her breathing was shallow and her eyes were rolling. I knew I had to keep her talking and I kept telling her to look up at the sky at the aeroplanes, she loves aeroplanes.”



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