COKE MACHINE
July 1st, 2001
BY MONICA DOBIE, in MontrealTHE PARENTS of a 19-year old university student who was crushed to death by a Coca-Cola vending machine have filed a CAN$1-million lawsuit in a court in Quebec, accusing the soft drink giant and the vending machine manufacturer of "gross carelessness."In December of 1998, Kevin Mackle, was found pinned under a fallen Coke machine on his Bishops University campus in Lennonxville, Quebec, after he tried to loosen a soft-drinks can by shaking the machine, which weighed 420 kilograms.A report from Quebec coroner René Maurice Belanger, ...
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