One Million Maclaren Strollers Recalled — What’s up?
EmailWe’ve just learned that one million Maclaren baby strollers are being recalled. The hinges are proving dangerous to little fingers. There have been – what seems to be – a run of baby products recalled lately including cribs, jog strollers, bassinets, even jars organic apple baby food.
There is a good site that tracks all the recalls. Here is the link to their list of baby/child product recalls.
And here is a release from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission with the details on the Maclaren recall:
Name of product: Maclaren Strollers
Units: About one million
Distributor: Maclaren USA, Inc., of South Norwalk, Conn.
Hazard: The stroller’s hinge mechanism poses a fingertip amputation and laceration hazard to the child when the consumer is unfolding/opening the stroller.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received 15 reports of children placing their finger in the stroller’s hinge mechanism, resulting in 12 reports of fingertip amputations in the United States.
Description: This recall involves all Maclaren single and double umbrella strollers. The word “Maclaren” is printed on the stroller. The affected models included Volo, Triumph, Quest Sport, Quest Mod, Techno XT, TechnoXLR, Twin Triumph, Twin Techno and Easy Traveller.
Sold at: Babies“R”Us, Target and other juvenile product and mass merchandise retailers nationwide from 1999 through November 2009 for between $100 and $360.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using these recalled strollers and contact Maclaren USA to receive a free repair kit.
Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Maclaren USA toll-free at (877) 688-2326 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or visit the firm’s Web site at
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There will never be anything made, that is entirely safe for children.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | November 9, 2009, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm
Of course, I wasn’t one bit surprised that the strollers are made in China. When are we going to stop this nonsense endangering our children and bring manufacturing back to the United States? SHAME, SHAME on this “manufacturer” for putting profits ahead of safety and having these strollers made in China.
Posted by: Chris | November 9, 2009, 1:20 pm 1:20 pm
Maclaren is a British company, so I doubt they’d manufacture their strollers in the US.
Posted by: Amy | November 9, 2009, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm
Chris -
Unless the strollers were desinged by engineers in China, the hinge mechanism has nothing to do with the Chinese. The Chinese simply assemble the strollers based on the designs they’re given. This is a design flaw, not an assembly flaw.
Posted by: Nothing to do with China, Chris | November 9, 2009, 1:54 pm 1:54 pm
company website is down, phone line busy!!! what the hell!!! Shame on this company for charging soooo much money for their strollers while endangering the well being of our children!!!
Posted by: andrew | November 9, 2009, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm
12 in 10 years out of 1,000,000 sold. PLEASE. This country is going crazy. A child could get hurt on anything. You could take every precaution in the world but as Murphy’s Law says… This is such a waste of time and money. I’m truly sorry that those little ones did get hurt. Nothing is perfect though.
Posted by: Teri in New Jersey | November 9, 2009, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
What are we supposed to do with the strollers of the childrens? Send them back? I keep looking in the internet but i dont find a number or email address.
Posted by: Kassandra | November 9, 2009, 6:04 pm 6:04 pm
Almost three hundred dollars for a stroller that can amputate children??? They should give everyone a refund instead of a cheap tool box. They charge an arm and a leg for a stroller and then they want you to fix it? Some nerve!
Posted by: Mel | November 9, 2009, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm
An “arm and a leg”. That’s hilarious.
Posted by: Enoch Pratt | November 10, 2009, 9:15 am 9:15 am
I have two of these strollers,a double and single. I love them both, glad they recalled them and are not ashamed to try and fix the problem. I think some of this is parent neglect. Why are they letting kids put fingers in places that could smash them. Children get hurt, it’s life. Iam sorry for the children who lost fingers to the situation.
Posted by: Elisa | November 11, 2009, 2:26 am 2:26 am
Keep buying those Chinese products!
Posted by: mm | November 14, 2009, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm
Show us pictures of the “hinge” so we can keep little fingers out of there.
Thanks . . .
Posted by: Show Me | November 17, 2009, 10:43 pm 10:43 pm
This is a combination of a design flaw made by Maclaren, and parents not watching their children properly. The fact that they were made in China is just a coincidence. These strollers would be just as unsafe if they were made in the US.
Posted by: Reader | November 29, 2009, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm
From experience, reputable products that have been outsourced to Chinese production – Clarks shoes, Hunter boots have been of lower quality. I’m not surprised. How can corps charge the same price when it’s obvious that quality has declined along with moving production to a culture where there are no labour laws and speed and volume is everything when churning the production line.
Posted by: Stella | June 8, 2011, 10:33 am 10:33 am