Young girl saves toddler after play slide fall

In June of 1988, eleven year old Lesley Beck’s sharp reflexes saved a local toddler from certain injury when she fell off a play slide in Wallace Park.

Lesley simply opened her arms and caught the little girl when she dropped about 12ft from the top of a spiral slide.

The child’s horrified parents watched in horror, unable to do anything but quick as a flash, Lesley who was waiting below for a turn on the slide, saw the child fall and managed to catch her.