Maclaren issues finger protection safety kit in UK
Pushchair giant Maclaren has today agreed to offer free hinge covers to UK consumers to make their baby pushchairs safer for young children.
Maclaren, recently announced that it would issue the safety kits to US consumers after it emerged that 12 children had suffered a finger amputation in the last 10 years. The children had suffered the amputations after getting a finger caught in the pushchair mechanism used in certain Maclaren models.
After the figures emerged, Which? called for Maclaren to issue the same hinge cover kits to UK consumers – the pushchairs sold in the UK are the same as those sold in the US – but the manufacturer initially declined to do so.
Maclaren pushchairs
Pushchairs that have the potential safety problem include:
Volo
Triumph
Quest Sport
Quest Mod
Techno XT
TechnoXLR
Twin Triumph
Twin Techno
Easy Traveller
If you own one of the affected pushchairs you can get free hinge covers to help make your pushchair safer by contacting Maclaren at advice@maclaren.co.uk or on 01327 841 300.
Lizzy Ruffles, pushchairs expert at Which? said: ‘We’re delighted to hear that Maclaren has listened to calls from Which? to give UK consumers access to the same free hinge covers as it’s giving to US consumers.
‘Which? could see no reason not to offer the same protection to children in the UK as their US counterparts were given.
‘We hope that these covers will help make Maclaren umbrella-folding pushchairs safer, and we’ll be testing them in our lab as soon as we can get some, to make sure that this is the case.’
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