Thread: Maclaren buggies amputating! why no UK action?

Quote: Originally Posted by Zinger549 Different company. No, really? *wheres the sarcasm smiley?*

Quote: Originally Posted by Esqui And that's a normal thing to do?? Hopefully not. I would hope that parents ensure their kids fingers are nowhere near the hinge when it is being unfolded, the dangers are rather obvious. But I guess McLaren couldn't rely on the assumption that their customers had any common sense or accept that sometimes kids do stupid things and accidents happen. Given the way this story has been reported in some...

Did anyone watch Top Gear tonight??? Makes me wonder if the Top Gear Team have been reading this thread, word for word

Quote: The amputations happened when children placed their finger in the hinge while the pushchair, or stroller, was being unfolded. And that's a normal thing to do??

I can't work out if you're trying to be sarcastic or not. Perhaps they should come with those warnings, because I wouldn't have expected an amputation to arise from the simple act of letting down a buggy with the child inside. It sounds like a nasty design of hinge to me. The fact they've had so many incidents, and that they've gone to the effort of manufacturing a fix for the hinge, suggests to me there obviously is...

Quote: Originally Posted by geordieracer Maybe if maclaren spent less time designing really fast racing cars and more time on a buggy the world would be a better place. Or do you think they should make F1 cars for kids now.....hummmm Different company.

So Maclaren, a British company is recalling a million of their buggies in America because some have chopped childrens fingers off! They are supplying Americans with hinge guards to protect their children but of course, here in the UK what do they do???? Well instead of the safety modification, we can simply have a label, telling parents to keep their kids away during folding and unfolding! So thats how Maclaren treat their British customers....

Quote: Originally Posted by NotQuiteNorbert Why no UK action? Well, for a start it's not Maclarens fault that some parents lack the common sense to keep their children clear of the mechanism when unfolding the buggies. They're doing far more than they should feel obliged to in supplying these hinge covers to the American market. I don't currently own a Maclaren, but the buggy I do own has a hinge very similar to that found on...

Isn't the lack of action in the UK to match that of the USA something to do with 'looser' EU regulations? Leading to the pushchair being considered a risk for American kids but not for ours. Having said that, an American woman with a Maclaren was shown saying "my child doesn't have his fingers near the mechanism when I collapse the pushchair". Spot on, assemble and collapse it PROPERLY and all digits will...

Maclaren UK certainly need to pull their fingers out and do something about this.