CAMERON MacLean must be the luckiest boy in York after falling almost 15 feet from a bedroom window - and suffering nothing more than a bruised foot.

Cameron, four, landed feet-first on solid concrete outside his home in Burton Green, York.

His mother, Denise, said today that doctors had been amazed by his lack of injuries, and told her he could have been killed.

He was kept under observation for two days at York District Hospital in case he had hidden internal injuries, but was discharged on Monday when all was well.

Denise said the accident happened after she had been putting Cameron to bed in his own bedroom and someone knocked at the door.

"As I was going downstairs to see who it was, Cameron went into my bedroom and opened the window to see who was at the door," she said.

"I saw him leaning out and ran upstairs to grab him, but by the time I had got into the bedroom he had gone. I ran down again and he was lying on the ground with his head on his arms. He must have landed feet-first, as if he was doing a parachute jump."

She claimed City of York Council had been too slow in fitting a lock to the bedroom window. A workman had fitted locks to some windows, but ran out of locks and said he would come back later. But he had still not returned when the accident happened. A council spokesman said today there was no council policy of fitting child locks on windows in York, although it did fit locks on replacement windows as a crime prevention measure. "The windows in the property were operating properly. Although we did recently replace faulty window locks downstairs, we had no plans for more work elsewhere."

Updated: 11:52 Wednesday, May 22, 2002