A DELIVERY driver lost his little finger in an accident as he locked up the back of his van in Kings Langley High Street.

The man was rushed to hospital with a bag of frozen peas used to stem the blood following the accident around 7.30am, outside the Spa shop in the High Street, last Friday.

Mr Graham Glover from Midlands based A F Blakemore had unloaded six of nine trolleys of goods for the Spa shop, when he trapped his little finger on his right hand closing the back of the lorry.

Shop manager Miss Marylin Myland said: "He just came and banged on the door. He had gloves on but it had cut through the gloves.

"He said 'my finger, I have crushed my finger'. He was very distressed and very shocked."

They called the ambulance and tried to calm down Mr Glover as he waited for its arrival.

Miss Myland said: "They [paramedics] said wrap it up, but he kept getting up and walking around, so we couldn't do anything.

"We didn't dare take the glove off because it would have taken the finger with it. I could see he was in a lot of pain."

Miss Myland said the ambulance was at the scene in 10 minutes. She said: "They came back in and asked for two small bags of frozen peas to pack the finger in. I think they have amputated it now."

The lorry remained in the lay-by outside the shop with its hazard lights on for seven hours before two of the companies drivers came to take it away.

An A F Blakemore spokesman said the driver was in "extreme pain" and did not wish to comment.