All Maclaren strollers to be recalled due to finger amputations

It's not yet official, but the news has been leaked to New York's Daily News and was on CBS News this morning. Maclaren, in cooperation with the Consumer Products Safety Commission, is poised to recall every umbrella stroller it's made since 1999 -- more than a million models -- including several of the strollers recommended in our reports on umbrella strollers and double strollers.

According to the Daily News, 12 children allegedly suffered amputated fingertips when their fingers were caught in one of the stroller's hinges. Maclaren will send consumers guards for the hinges, which should correct the danger.

What we don't yet know is when the amputations took place, so we don't know how long Maclaren has known about the problem. More details should be forthcoming. The CBS News report says that injuries can occur whether the stroller is open or closed, but so far, we don't know which hinge is the problem. The safest thing is to stop using your stroller, but for many parents, that's going to be difficult.

The Maclaren website has been flooded with hits this morning -- so many that it has crashed -- so we haven't yet read a statement from Maclaren regarding the recall and how parents should proceed.