10-year-old Dies in Mudslide on School Trip
Handsam School Trips Advisor
10-year-old schoolgirl Leah Harrison was killed on 22nd May during a school residential trip. She was a Year 6 pupil at Mount Pleasant Primary in Darlington.
The school had been taking part in an outdoor education forest walk at Carlton Adventure, which Leah had been participating in. According to the sit operators, Hartlepool Council, the activities had been suspended.
North Yorkshire Police and the Health and Safety Executive are cconducting an investigation to find out what happened.
Leah is believed to have been one of a number of pupils who were on the school residential trip, following the end of SAT tests the week before.
According to the BBC, Denise McGuckin, managing director of Hartlepool Borough Council, said: "The tragic incident occurred during one of the centre's instructor-led outdoor education forest walks near to Carlton-in-Cleveland.”
The mudslide happened at Carlton-in-Cleveland just after midday and emergency services were called to the scene. A yellow weather warning for rain was then put in place. It is believed the area saw a month's worth of rain within 12 hours.