Umbrella Attack!
A South Carolina woman was killed Wednesday after a loose beach umbrella got swept up in the wind and went airborne, impaling her in the chest, authorities said.
Horry County Chief Deputy Coroner Tamara Willard told local news outlets that beachgoer Tammy Perreault, 63, of Surfside Beach, died of chest trauma following the beach incident in Garden City, South Carolina, about 10 miles southwest of Myrtle Beach.
“A gust of wind that came through took an umbrella through the air and it just kept going and going. Everyone says, 'Duck,' and we did, but, unfortunately, she was in the line of fire,” Sherry White, one of Perreault’s best friends who witnessed the accident, told local station WMBF-TV.
Perreault was taken to Waccamaw Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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