According To AsiaOne News:

HER teddy bear has been her only confidante, the only one privy to her thoughts and feelings on the horrific incident in which she lost a big toe.

The 4-year-old has been so traumatised by the incident that she has refused to speak to anyone – including her parents – about what happened that day.

On 20 Sep, her shoe became trapped in a moving escalator at The Furniture Mall at Beach Road. To her parents’ horror, the shoe was mangled and the big toe on her left foot was ripped off.

Aware of ‘the pain and sadness’ this has caused her parents, the little girl has been putting on a brave front and even tells them to ‘stop it’ when she overhears them talking about the incident.

The couple and their daughter were at the mall that Saturday to shop for a magazine rack when they got onto an escalator on the second storey at about 4.15pm. The girl stood alone on one of the steps, in between her mother in front and Mr Kunio behind her.

While they were about midway up the escalator, the girl turned to speak to him. That was when her left foot got trapped.

She screamed and called out in Japanese: ‘Ma! Pain!’

Mrs Kunio noticed that her daughter’s legs were twisted in an awkward position and shouted to her husband: ‘Her leg!’

Mr Kunio lifted her up, not realising her foot was trapped, and it caused her big toe to be ripped off. Her left sock and shoe – a Crocs rubber clog – remained stuck in the escalator. All this while, the escalator kept moving.

Said Mr Kunio through an interpreter: ‘If only the escalator had stopped moving, I might have realised that something was wrong and I wouldn’t have carried her up.’

Read the full article at AsiaOne News

- This is another rubber shoes accident in a string of rubber shoes accidents…at Singapore escalators! I believe this call for a case of total ban of these kinds of shoes at escalators…hee

Problems

1. Children wearing rubber shoes get their toes ripped off.
2. Many people from other countries that comes to Singapore don’t know the history of rubber clogs accidents in Singapore.
3. No Warning.
4. Some escalators are not upgraded with “hair brush” at the sides to prevent such accidents.

Solutions Suggested.

1. Children don’t wear rubber shoes when go shopping, get a spare sandles/shoes in the back pack.
2. Put up brochures or books at locations that have escalators and do inform all tourist who wear these rubber shoes at tourist location…with news articles like these in the warning signs.
3. Escalators should already put up warning signs about RUBBER SHOES and have some kind of emergency stop button at clear locations.
4. Upgrade all escalators and penalize buildings management that don’t.
5. Teach kids at school about such dangers.

This complain cannot be joked about haha…so take care of your kids and your own toes!!

Latest Update:

• Oh No! Not Crocs (Rubble Shoe + Escalator Accident) Again!

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