Even A Hoodie Can Kill Children. What Is The Problem?

Dozens of children were killed in one year. Can you see what's wrong? It's such a common Hoodie in the market. I believe many children pass through it. What's wrong with it? hoodie Do you dare to believe in killing children? It is a dangerous product recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission of the United States. Where is the danger? The answer is on the strings on both sides of the hat. Let's have a look.

How big is the neck of the hat?

A Hoodie is a favorite among young parents. Autumn dress One of them is soft cloth and casual wear, which saves the trouble of buttons. The hat can also cover the wind and rain. Many hoodies also have a rope to tighten their caps. But who would have thought that this rope might pose a fatal danger.

We bought three sets of children hoodies randomly in the market, and the outer part of the hat cord was 40 centimeters, 26 centimeters and 46 centimeters long respectively. The longest two are close to the child's waist. The experimenter came to a kindergarten in Hangzhou to find a slide and simulate a child with one meter tall dummy.

The normal slide posture is sitting up straight, with your legs straight down. In this position, the experimenters found that the models were able to slide smoothly and the hat cord was not jammed. But a change of posture is coming: the higher side of the slide has a gap of about one centimeter at the junction with the platform. When the model is lying down, the knot of the hat rope may fall into the gap. If the body is sliding down, its weight will quickly tighten the rope and eventually die.

Another dangerous move is head down, and many naughty boys like to experience this "diving" feeling. The researchers found that the naturally drooping hat rope was prone to fall into the gap when it leaned down and slipped down to keep the neck in check.

Another situation is easy to be overlooked. Some parents believe that if the hat is too long, it is not convenient to use a rope to tie a bow in front of the child's chest. But we found that if a child is sitting on a slippery slide on the ground, the child's buttocks may be pressed down during the gliding process. At this time, the direction of the movement of the child is downward, while the clothes are not moving, resulting in the closure. Hoodies rope Getting closer and closer to the neck, eventually choking, causing suffocation.

Then, how big is the rope's grip on the neck? The experimenter put the end of the hat rope into a slot, tied a sandbag to the model body, weighed 12 Jin, then tied a banana on the neck of the model, letting it lie flat and free to slide. The result was that the banana was cut into two segments when the rope was stopped.

In real life, the weight of a 3 year old child is far more than 12 Jin, and the impact will be greater when it slipped. After being stuck in the neck, the child may struggle desperately, and this force will make the rope deeper and deeper.

While we were doing the experiment, several children on the slide went down and swooped down from the top. The kindergarten teacher hurried up to stop it, but there were still children who were not obedient.

"Because of the hidden trouble of the hat rope, it is quite large in kindergarten, especially in the younger age group." David, a teacher at the Kyoto experimental nursery in Hangzhou, said, "the children do not know how to tie and how to manage. For example, the rope on the hat and behind the clothes is easy to trip up when running, playing with a big toy or pulling clothes in line.

Another test. When the child gets off the bus, what happens if the hooded rope is caught by the door? The experimenter uses a one meter tall dummy to continue testing, closing the door and holding the hat rope. As a result, pulling the rope with the strength of an adult can not pull it out. When the car starts, the hat rope is dragging the dummy along the way, and the neck is stuck. The dummy's body is almost pressed by the tire.

Children's muscles and soft tissues are not well developed. If they are caught in the windpipe, they will soon suffocate. If you are caught in the carotid artery, you will be unconscious for a minute, and you will die in a few minutes.

The United States forbids children's jackets to pull strings.

According to the laws of the United States, children's clothing from 2 to 12 years old must never be pulled. Because pulling the rope can cause death risk to the child -- when the rope is stuck by the appliance, the child can easily be strangled. Such worries are far from being too cautious for the Americans.

From January 1985 to June 1995, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission received 12 reports of injuries and injuries. Children were pulled and strangled because of the pulling of their clothing strings by equipment such as playground facilities, escalators and other equipment. The agency then set up voluntary standards (later because the problem did not improve and became mandatory). Not only the United States, the European Union, Australia and Canada also have similar provisions.

Chinese children certainly do not have a strong head. The media has reported many incidents of "pulling rope to kill children", almost all with the slide of kindergarten.

In January 2007, when a 4 year old girl was playing on a slide in a kindergarten in Guangxi, the pull button on the dress hat was jammed by the slide gap, and the rope hung on her neck, resulting in suffocation.

In 2011, a 3 year old boy in Shangrao, Jiangxi, died of suffocation because one end of his rope was stuck on the slide and one end wound around his neck.

In November 5, 2012, a young child in Dongguan was strangled by a rope when he slipped on the slide.

In September 2013, a 3 year old boy was killed in a slide on the kindergarten in Taikang County, Henan. Pull rope 。

All the piles are pointing to the drawstring problem.

China has no mandatory standards yet.

However, such an important issue has not received the attention of all.

Lou Caiying, vice president of Zhejiang textile testing and Research Institute, said: "there is no mandatory standard for children's upper garment rope standard. There are only recommended standards."

The national "safety requirements for ropes and belts for children's wear" and "Safety specifications for children's tops" are described in this section. Children's jackets are described in this way: it is suggested that the hood and neck of children's tops should not be used with straps, and that when the clothes are spread to the maximum width, there should be no prominent loops (the prominent part of the rope ends).

These two standards refer to the ASTM standard of the United States. European Union The EN standard. The difference is that the US and EU standards are mandatory. "The state is formulating a mandatory requirement for infants and children's clothing. After such standards come out, there may be less security risks in these areas," said Lou Cai Ying, vice president of the school.

Is your child under 6 years old wearing a hooded sweater? Do you dare to wear it again? Throw it out of your baby's wardrobe!

Parents must be vigilant against such hidden dangers. Baby dress Not only look at the beauty, but also need to have a certain sense of arrangement.