A furious father has slammed a water company after his daughter was sent hurtling down a 6ft manhole because its 'wafer-thin' cover flipped as she ran across it. Terrifying footage shows the moment Anastasia Pearce, three, 'almost died' as she plummeted down the hole after running across it in a communal garden in Stourbridge, West Midlands. After dramatically disappearing into the ground, her panicking father Steven Pearce runs over 'faster than Usain Bolt ' to drag the toddler to safety. Moments before the horrifying ordeal, the 40-year-old can be heard telling the child to 'not to go past the drain' as he watches her play in the garden.
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