A lifeguard was impaled by a beach umbrella Wednesday morning at Asbury Park Beach in New Jersey. According to chief of the Asbury Park Fire Department, the 6-foot long umbrella went into the young woman’s left shoulder and came out through her back. Fire department and EMS personnel were forced to cut the umbrella stake into pieces before the woman, who was alert and conscious throughout the ordeal, could be transported to a hospital. It is unclear how exactly the impalement took place. Freak accidents involving beach umbrellas have occurred in the area before: In 2018, a gust of wind sent the spike of an umbrella careening right through the ankle of a British tourist in Seaside Heights, further down the Jersey Shore. More recently, a South Carolina woman died after a beach umbrella impaled her in the chest in 2022. The New Jersey woman was transported to nearby Jersey Shore Medical Center.
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