Future Motion recalled its Onewheel self-balancing electrical skateboards, in keeping with an announcement from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
CPSC discovered that the gear might trigger the rider to be ejected from the product leading to damage or demise. There have been at the least 4 reported deaths between 2019 and 2021 and a number of stories of great accidents after the product didn’t stability the rider or all of the sudden stopped in movement. The reported deaths resulted from head trauma. Reported accidents embody traumatic mind damage, concussion, paralysis, upper-body fractures, lower-body fractures, and ligament harm.
The Onewheel merchandise are self-balancing electrical skateboards with a single wheel in the midst of the board and entrance and rear footpads the place the rider stands astride the wheel. Onewheel and mannequin Onewheel+, Pint or GT seem on the aspect of the skateboard. The Onewheel brand is printed on the skateboard’s wheel. The serial quantity will be discovered on the underside of the underside of the skateboard rail.
Onewheel merchandise have been bought since 2014, on-line right here and by licensed unbiased sellers nationwide. Current fashions are priced between $1050 and $2200.
Future Motion has refused to comply with an appropriate recall of the product.
CPSC intends to proceed pursuing a recall for customers. CPSC urges customers to not purchase the Onewheel. If they personal one or bought one, customers are urged to not use it as a result of ejection hazard.
Consumers ought to report incidents with the Onewheel or product-related damage right here.
Photo courtesy One Wheel (Pint)