A FATHER today described his daughter's amazing recovery following a building site accident which left her with multiple injuries.

Abigail Bannister, seven, has left hospital less than a week after she was rescued from beneath a mountain of rubble and scaffolding at an Oswaldtwistle building site -- and hopes to be back at school within a week.

The accident was caused when scaffolding collapsed. Abigail was taken to Blackburn Royal Infirmary with a hairline fracture to the skull, a punctured lung, a broken rib, internal and external bruising, a cracked pelvis, bruising on her face and chipped teeth.

But just two days later, the pupil at St Mary's RC Primary School, Oswaldtwistle, was walking and yesterday she was allowed home.

Her, dad, Mark, 39, of Orchard Drive, Oswaldtwistle, said: "We have been absolutely amazed by the speed of her recovery.

"The doctors were expecting her to be in hospital for a lot longer than a week."

Abigail was playing on a part-finished housing estate on Apple Tree Way, Oswaldtwistle, with a four-year-old friend, Sam Houghton when the accident happened at 6.50pm last Saturday.

Sam needed 10 stitches after being hit on the head with a piece of falling scaffolding, and was kept in hospital for two days.

The Health and Safety Executive are investigating.