Hoverboard Fire Safety Hazard: Self-Balancing Scooter Concerns Leads To Store Bans

New letters announce that hoverboards could be a blaze hazard if break handled. Major retailers accept banned the self-balancing Scooter, but you can acquirement them from abounding stores.
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Hoverboards are the hot account of 2015, but there is some could cause for affair over the self-balancing devices. In accession to the acceptable assurance hazards of operating a automatic vehicle, new letters announce hoverboards could be a blaze hazard if break handled. Afterwards the accessories were banned by New York City, Overstock.com became the aboriginal banker to arrest the auction of hoverboards.

Overstock.com issued a account apropos the cessation of hoverboard sales on Wednesday. "Customer assurance is consistently our top priority. With the connected actualization of account letters highlighting assurance apropos with 'hoverboard' self-scooter balance, we accept fabricated the accommodation to abolish all agnate articles from our website as a basic measure,"


Mitch Edwards, General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Overstock.com said in a statement. Any chump who purchased a hoverboard was contacted by an Overstock representative. The chump could acknowledgment the scooter for a abounding acquittance aural two weeks of apprehension or artefact delivery, the aggregation said.


Concerns about the hoverboard were aboriginal aloft afterwards several letters of the account communicable on fire. Jessica Horne's home was destroyed afterwards a hoverboard reportedly exploded while it was getting charged, New Orleans' bounded ABC associate WGNO-TV reported. Another hoverboard reportedly exploded while it was getting answerable beforehand this week, Baton Rouge's bounded ABC associate WBRZ-TV reported. "I was like oh my god, I can't accept that this is accident and I'm animated that we were at home if this happened," Tamara Hardnett said to the TV station. Another hoverboard bent blaze at Washington State Mall.


Timothy Cade's video of his hoverboard reportedly exploding while he was benumbed it went viral.


But there are means to advice the abate the accident of hoverboards, according to the National Association of State Blaze Marshals (NASFM). The alignment issued a admonishing for consumers to analysis hoverboard manufacturers afore purchasing the automatic scooter. Purchasing the cheapest accessible hoverboard from an alien architect could be problematic.

It's recommended for abeyant consumers to apprehend reviews and media advantage apropos the beginning industry.
"Buyers should attending for break of accepting by accustomed testing organizations, the advice of which may arise on the item’s packaging. Consumers should aswell accede purchasing the items from acclaimed online and bounded food that action warranties," the NASFM said in a statement. The alignment aswell recommends not overcharging hoverboards or abrogation the 2 wheel self balancing scooter.