A WOMAN has died after falling from the top of a multi-storey car park in Nelson.

And now questions are being asked whether enough has been done to stop people jumping from the car park above the bus station.

Geoff Whitehead, manager for Pendle Community Safety Partnership, is calling for a meeting with car park managers, police and the mental health services in order to help combat the incidents.

Police said they believed the 33-year-old women, from Barnoldswick, had jumped from the car park at 8.20am today in a suspected suicide.

A security guard found the woman at the top of the car park and tried to stop her, police said.

Paramedics were called to the scene and the women, who police said had been suffering from depression, was taken to Burnley General Hospital.

She died shortly after 1pm.

In the two years to 2003, four people died after falling from the car park.

After a 42-year-old man died in 2003, phone numbers for the Samaritans were put up in the car park and Modus Property Developers, which owned the car park at the time, said it was going to refurbish facilities to prevent further tragedies.

It is unclear whether these improvements were made.

Since then the car park has been taken over by Excel Parking Services which today declined to comment.

Mr Whitehead called for a review of possible safety measures at the car park.

He said: "We are terribly upset to hear that this has happened again and hope to do all we can to help stop people from reaching this level of desperation.

"The car park is run by a private company but from a community safety perspective we would like to have a meeting to review the car park with the owners, the police and the mental health services.

"We are very concerned that people get to such a point where this is the only way they can see to get out.

"It is obviously very difficult to stop it altogether but we want people to know that there is help available when they need it."

Detective Inspector Dean Holden, of Burnley CID, said: "At around 8.30am we had a report that a woman had leapt from the top, landing in Sagar Street. An ambulance and police attended and she was taken to hospital in a serious condition.

"Unfortunately, she died shortly after 1pm.

"We cannot release her name yet as not all her family have been informed, but we can confirm that she is a 33-year-old woman from Barnoldswick who had been suffering from depression.

"Her husband has been informed, and at this stage we are treating the death as suicide, with no suspicious circumstances.

"A security guard at the car park tried to prevent her from jumping but was unsuccessful. He is understandably traumatised by the incident.