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funbobby
15 yrs ago
this is a voluntary recall in the US only, but invovles 100 million strollers worldwide, basically any single or double Maclaren stoller made since 1999...a free safety fix is available from Maclaren (in Hong Kong as well)...no need to trash your stroller (though I WILL take your Volo off your hands if you want...)
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you can always pick out the posters who don't have children by the silly comments they make (jus)....if you had a toddler, you'd realize (as I am now just beginning to with a 20mth old girl) that you need eyes in the back of your head at ALL times...luckily we very very rarely fold up our Maclaren with her around, usually she's already in the taxi, so it hasn't been a problem yet...all the same I'll be getting the covers asap
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Baby strollers safe, says distributor
11-11-2009 rthk news
The local distributor of MacLaren baby strollers - some of which are being recalled in the United States - insists their products are safe, and it has no plans to order a recall in Hong Kong. There are reports that more than a dozen toddlers in the US had their fingertips cut off after being caught in hinges. MacLaren Hong Kong said it would provide customers here with specially-designed covers to prevent babies from placing their fingers inside the hinges, while the strollers were being opened or closed. Its managing director, Sam McQuig, advised parents to follow the user guide. He said that a voluntary US recall doesn't mean there's something wrong with its products.
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Nothing wrong with their product??? - tell that to the 12 kids that only have 9 full digits. Maclaren in general did a lousy job (too slow responding) and Maclaren in HK did even worse (see article in HK Std). Shame HK consumers do not get the same protection as elsewhere.
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Its managing director, Sam McQuig, advised parents to follow the user guide.
isn't this insulting to parents? redirecting the blame on the parents rather than acknowledging that it is a product defect.
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when i was around 3, i stuck my finger in the gap in the hinged side of the bathroom door, and when my mom closed the door, you guessed it, i got the tip snipped off...when my sister was 5, she got her hand slammed in the heavy entrance door of her kindergarten and yes, the tip of her finger got snipped off...in both cases they were re-attached with no further complications...the point is you CAN'T predict what a kid is gonna do, and you CAN'T be watching them every second of every day...it is impossible...accidents happen, and Maclaren is doing what they can to minimize the chance of it happening again...what more do you want?
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I don't have children but I wouldn't be happy with Maclaren's response to this. I think the spokesperson from Maclaren is being disingenuous. Yes, accidents do happen, but none of these fingertip-snipping ones would have if the pushchairs had been rigorously tested in the first place; there's clearly a design defect. Parents automatically and actively look out for their toddlers waddling around doors and are instinctively on high alert to stop them from slamming doors on their fingers. Also, parents tend to carefully monitor young children when let loose on a folding desk (!) and any other potentially hazardous object, but it's mad that they must be on tenterhooks, watching every second, when their babies/toddlers are in/near one of the very few items designed specifically for them, i.e. a pushchair, even if the danger is limited to when the pushchair is being opened or closed! Surely that's not okay?
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cd
15 yrs ago
How many millions of Maclaren buggies have been used safely since 1999, they must be the biggest supplier of pushchairs, how many kids have this happened to. Accidents happen, as funbooby said, a friend of mine lost part of a finger in a phone box door when he was younger. Even if you're standing right by the child accidents can still happen.
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ahem, CD...that's funBOBBY, not funBOOBY lol :-D
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cd
15 yrs ago
sorry, having trouble with my keyboard.....although I quite like your new name
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Seriously, who keep their kids near the pushchair when folding/unfolding? Because that's when the accidents have happened. Isn't it sort of obvious that when metal pieces fold up into each other there is a pinching hazard?
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playing devil's advocate, toddlers do have a tendency to mimic mommy and daddy at times...watching us fold and unfold the stroller might give rise to the possibility that they would try it themselves, and that could be when accidents happen...not necessarily while we are carelessly doing it ourselves...still I agree that (for us at least) it is rarely (actually never) that we have been folding the stroller with DD walking within arms reach of it...
BTW, covers are available as of tomorrow according to SCMP...I'll see you in the lineup!
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Just to clarify my statement, a parent is pretty much expected to have eyes in the back of the head. This stroller things is nothing compared to keeping track of kids in parking garages, keeping fingers from reaching up to the stove, and many many other househild dangers. Sure, there is a risk, but I can't help but think that keeping kids away from folding strollers isn't really that hard in the grand scheme of things.
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