British tourist impaled by umbrella on Jersey beach
- 6 years ago
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY — A British woman's Jersey Shore holiday took a terrible turn after she figured in a freak accident with a beach umbrella.
WPVI reports that Margaret Reynolds had been relaxing at Seaside Heights Monday afternoon when a particularly strong gust of wind suddenly blew through the area.
The wind uprooted a big beach umbrella and sent it flying toward the 67-year-old Londoner, which then impaled her right ankle with one of its thick aluminum spokes.
A pediatrician and an EMT who happened to be on the beach tended to Reynolds and applied a tourniquet until emergency responders arrived and used a bolt cutter to cut the spoke off the umbrella frame.
She was rushed to a hospital with a piece of metal still in her ankle, but it's since been dislodged.
Reynolds was in good condition as of Tuesday, and already dismissed the incident as "just an accident" in true British fashion.
Police say one way to prevent these impalements is to plant the umbrella at least two feet into the ground, with a back-and-forth motion instead of circular.
WPVI reports that Margaret Reynolds had been relaxing at Seaside Heights Monday afternoon when a particularly strong gust of wind suddenly blew through the area.
The wind uprooted a big beach umbrella and sent it flying toward the 67-year-old Londoner, which then impaled her right ankle with one of its thick aluminum spokes.
A pediatrician and an EMT who happened to be on the beach tended to Reynolds and applied a tourniquet until emergency responders arrived and used a bolt cutter to cut the spoke off the umbrella frame.
She was rushed to a hospital with a piece of metal still in her ankle, but it's since been dislodged.
Reynolds was in good condition as of Tuesday, and already dismissed the incident as "just an accident" in true British fashion.
Police say one way to prevent these impalements is to plant the umbrella at least two feet into the ground, with a back-and-forth motion instead of circular.