Accident-prone schoolboy Troy Cantwell had an amazing escape after falling head-first through a garage roof on to a concrete floor.

Ten-year-old Troy, from Quarry High Street, Oxford, was saved from serious injury by plunging on to cardboard boxes, which broke his 12-foot fall.

The youngster, who suffered only cuts and grazes, was playing with friends at garages with asbestos and corrugated iron roofs.

He said: "I was throwing my hat about and I threw it to my friend. The wind caught it and it went on to the garage roof, so I went on to the wall to get it but I slipped. I jumped on to the garage and I fell through. I was scared and I cut my arm. My friends were shouting to me but I didn't call back because I was shaking.

"I thought I'd be stuck in there because the person who owns the garage is on holiday. I was crying a lot."

Mum Jacki, 39, said: "A lady came to the door and said Troy had slipped through the roof. I felt absolutely sick. I ran down that stretch of road in about one minute. I've never run so fast."

Last school holidays Troy, a pupil at Headington Middle School, ended up in the John Radcliffe Hospital after dropping a drain cover on his fingers while looking for frogs.

Station Officer David Butlin, of Oxfordshire Fire Service, warned children to keep off corrugated iron roofs. He said: "It's dangerous stuff to clamber on as it's liable to give way."

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