Teens are still dicing with death at a ‘death trap’ quarry where the body of a 16-year-old was pulled from the water over the weekend, residents have claimed. Emergency services were called to the site at around 9.40pm on July 9, to reports a boy had got into difficulty in the water at Dawber Delph, Appley Bridge.
Tragically, the body of the teen was recovered from the water following a search. The boy, who has not been named, was pronounced dead at the scene and police confirmed his death was not being treated as suspicious.
The death brings the death toll at East Quarry to three, with two previous deaths of teens in the quarry’s dangerous waters in 2015 and 1999. In 2015, 13-year-old Miracle Godson, who was a promising young rugby player, died after getting into difficulties in the quarry’s deep waters. In 1999, Craig Croston, 17, drowned at the Appley Bridge quarry, Lancs Live reports.
