A McDonald’s customer suffered horrific burns after spilling a cup of tea that she claims the lid had not been fitted properly on.
Joanna Audoire says as she sat down in her car with a tray containing the tea, the beverage toppled over covering her leg in boiling water.
The 44-year-old mother-of-three is now considering suing the fast food restaurant after medics told her she would be scarred for life.
Ms Audoire picked up a breakfast, a cup of tea, and a Coke from McDonald’s to enjoy in her car after a shopping trip with a friend.
She claimed that as she sat down the cup with the poorly fitted lid pitched over.
When she removed her trousers she claims the skin on her left thigh peeled off too, leaving her with a huge bubbling L-shaped burn the size of her hand.
The telemarketing worker was off work for more than a week because she couldn’t walk properly due to the pain.
Ms Audoire, from Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, said: ‘I am seriously considering legal action for the time I have had to take off work and for the injury and trauma I have suffered.
‘I was in immense pain. They need to take some responsibility for serving the tea as hot as that with a flimsy lid.
‘When will they improve it? When a child is seriously burnt? It makes me cross.
‘The lid couldn’t have been on properly, and I know tea is hot, but was it too hot on this occasion? I think it was. It was very very painful. It shouldn’t have happened.’
