Emergency workers carry Alex to an ambulance after she was impaled by the beach umbrella. Photo courtesy of ABC-7 The beach supervisor said if the 18-year-old was in pain, nobody noticed.

Fellow lifeguards and EMS responded to a call of a young woman who had been impaled by a roughly 6-foot-long umbrella at about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Asbury Park’s 3rd Avenue Beach, fire ...

“The umbrella went underneath her left shoulder and out the back,” said Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy in a statement to The New York Post. “It was protruding by about a foot,” he added.

ASBURY PARK, N.J. (WPVI) -- The lifeguard who was impaled by a beach umbrella in a freak accident this week said she knows how lucky she is and she is vowing to return to the beach once she makes ...

And while it is rare to be impaled by an umbrella, it does happen. In August of 2022, a woman in South Carolina died after a loose beach umbrella became airborne and impaled her in the chest.

ASBURY PARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- The lifeguard who was impaled by a beach umbrella in a freak accident this week said she knows how lucky she is and vows to return to the beach once she makes a ...

An Asbury Park lifeguard was impaled by a beach umbrella Wednesday morning, police said. It happened at around 9:30 a.m. on Third Avenue Beach. Authorities say the 6-foot umbrella went through her ...

An Asbury Park lifeguard was impaled by an umbrella Wednesday morning, authorities said. The wind took hold of her umbrella while she was setting it up and the stake pierced her arm, a fellow ...

NEED TO KNOW Officials said that a beach umbrella impaled a New Jersey lifeguard on June 25 “It was protruding by about a foot,” Asbury Park Fire Chief Kevin Keddy said ...