article_snippet: A schoolboy drowned in a canal after slipping while playing a game of dare and walking along a gas pipe, as his father and grandfather had done when his father and grandfather were children, an inquest heard.
article_snippet: Robbie Williamson, 11, had been about to reach the end of Scaling pipe stretching over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in Burnley, Lancashire, when his slipped and hit his head on the canal banking.
article_snippet: Knocked unconscious by the blow, his fell backwards into the water and although a passer-by, alerted by the screams of Robbie's friends, was able to pull his from a canalhis died a short time later in hospital.
article_snippet: Robbie Williamson, 11, drowned in a canal after slipping while playing a game of dare and walking along a gas pipe, as his father and grandfather had done when his father and grandfather were children, an inquest heard .
article_snippet: Robbie had been about to reach the end of this pipe, which stretches over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Liverpool Canal in Burnley, Lancashire, when Robbie slipped and hit his head on the canal banking .
article_snippet: The officer added: 'As they approached the far end of the Dugdale Bridge one said that The officer is about to climb down onto the opposite ledge and hears a shout from Robbie and The officer falls into the water.
article_snippet: The officer strikes The officer on the bank of the canal before falling backwards into the water.'
article_snippet: The three boys then climbed down and on seeing Robbie in the water screamed for help, as one ran to find assistance.
highlights_snippet: Robbie Williamson, 11, hit his head and fell into Leeds and Liverpool canal .
  