Asda fined £15,000 after boy's finger severed by parking machine

Retail giant Asda has been fined £15,000 after it continued to use a parking machine even after the machine had sliced off the fingertip of a 10-year-old boy, reports The Scotsman.

The incident took place at a store in Merseyside. The boy put his hand into the coin-return chute to collect a pound coin, but his fingertip was sliced off by the metal flap when he tried to pull his hand out. Doctors tried to sew the fingertip back on, but without success.

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