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A mum claims her daughter has been left permanently scarred after 'slicing her arm open' on a piece of metal that was sticking out of a bollard.
Ella Jackson, who was six at the time, was playing out on the street near the family home in Edgeley, Stockport, as mum Jodie, 31, watched on.
However, Ella suddenly collapsed to the ground as blood poured from her arm. Jodie claims she had caught it on a 'metal cable tie' that was tied around the bollard, part of which was sticking out and 'looked like a razor blade' it was so sharp.
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She scooped her up and rushed her to hospital where she had to have several stitches to close the wound. She has now been left with a permanent scar on the inside of her upper right arm.
Care worker Jodie claims the injury could have been much worse had it cut an artery.
She says she and a pal were watching their daughters play close to the bollards which stop traffic between Flint Street and Simpson Street on the border of Edgeley and Shaw Heath, when the incident happened.
"She just suddenly sat down and looked at me in a funny way" she said. "I went over and looked and her arm was completely split open. You could see everything it was awful.
"She said 'mummy my arm feels wet' and there was quite a lot of blood coming out. Straight away I said to my friend 'I'm going to have to take her to hospital.' I was panicking a bit because it looked really bad.
"I put her in the car and we went straight there. She threw up in the waiting room because of the shock. They cleaned it up first, which was really traumatic as she was screaming in pain.
"Then we waited hours for them to stitch it. She needed five stitches in
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