The buggy maker Maclaren is to pay thousands of pounds to children who have suffered an injury due to their product. The folding pushchairs have been at fault for injuring the children, causing severe cuts, broken fingers or loss of fingers as they have become trapped in the pushchairs hinges.

Although Maclaren are paying compensation to at least 40 British children, they have denied liability. Payments of injury compensation for children will range from £2,000 to £10,000, the child compensation payments will be determined by the severity of the injury and length of suffering the child has had, caused by the pushchair.

In America, Maclaren have recalled around a million pushchairs after children had suffered the loss of fingers due to their pushchairs.

Maclaren are not to recall the pushchairs in the UK as it is said there are an insufficient number of cases where children have been injured.

Maclaren has said it takes child safety “very seriously”. They have also said “We have sold more than a million buggies in the past decade in the UK and have only had around 100 complaints”