A go-karting company will have to pay over £10,000 after a crash which left a 10-year-old boy with serious injuries.
The lad suffered a broken leg and dislocated and broken ankle and he also bruised a small section of his small intestine after the crash during a birthday party at Karting Oxford in March last year.
His go-kart hit a fixed metal barrier at the edge of the circuit.
Oxford City Council prosecuted the company for health and safety and at Oxford Magistrates' Court the firm admitted failing to discharge its duty as an employer to persons other than their employees and failure to undertake a suitable and sufficient risk assessment.
Magistrates fined the company £9,000 and orderd it must pay the council's costs of £1,746.20 John Copley, head of environmental development at Oxford City Council, said: "This serious injury was due to the company not meeting its legal obligation to ensure that it does not put members of the public at risk.
"These matters are taken very seriously."
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