Who knew beach umbrellas were so deadly? I’ve seen many flying around the beach who owners in chase. Usually, they are tumbling end over end — not flying like a spear.
A beachgoer was killed on Wednesday after an ocean side umbrella came free and speared her in the chest, said.
The umbrella was blown from its mooring by the breeze around 12.40pm and hit Tammy Perreault while she was at a Garden City ocean side in South Carolina, coroner Tamara Willard told media sources.
Perreault, 63, passed away about an hour after the fact at the hospital from the chest injury, Willard said.
Beach side umbrellas have a spiked finish to assist with driving them into the sand and their wide shade permits them to become involved with areas of strength for an in the event that they are not moored as expected, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
The government organization gauges around 3,000 individuals are harmed by ocean side umbrellas consistently.
The US representatives Tim Kaine and Mark Warner of Virginia requested that the wellbeing organization survey security rules for ocean side umbrellas and begin a safety campaign after a Virginia lady was killed by an umbrella in 2016.