A 17-YEAR-OLD girl survived after plunging from a multi-storey car park on to a grass verge.

Sarah Brooks fell more than 30ft from the ninth level of the Crown Street car park.

Earlier, a female car park supervisor spent 10 minutes trying to calm the young woman in an attempt to persuade her to move away from the edge.

But she watched helplessly as the teenager fell to the ground.

Miss Brooks broke her feet, legs, pelvis and suffered serious internal injuries.

She was taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery. Miss Brooks has been transferred to another hospital where she was due to have further operations today.

Police received a call to say a teenager was threatening to throw herself off the council-owned APCOA car park at 1.30pm.

By the time officers arrived minutes later, she had fallen.

Shocked shoppers looked on as the drama unfolded half way up the multi- storey car park overlooking Folds Road.

The car park attendant was taken to hospital suffering from shock.

A police spokesman said: "She is very lucky to be alive. A supervisor at the car park tried to talk her down but she fell. Witnesses have come forward to the police to tell us what they saw."

The health and safety executive has been informed and an investigation launched.

A Bow street car park attendant, who did not wish to be named, said: "A girl was hanging around the car park at around noon and was told to leave."

Her former landlord said she had lived at a flat in Chorley Old Road for about eight weeks.

It is thought she moved out and returned home to live with her mother in Myrrh Street, Halliwell, about six weeks ago.

The landlord, who did not want to be named, said: "She did have a few friends, who would come around to the flat from time to time, but she was a very quiet girl."