On June 30, 2010, Lynn Stevens was enjoying a windy but hot summer day on the beach with her family in the area of the Gateway Grand when a beach umbrella in her vicinity was lifted high in the area by a gust of wind and came plummeting back to the ground at a high rate of speed. The spiked end of the umbrella pole impaled Stevens’ thigh and nearly severed a major artery.
“It was a very windy day and the umbrella was lifted straight up in the air,” said Stevens this week as she recounted the incident five years ago. “It came straight back down and went through my thigh. The pole went into my leg about four inches and it just missed my femoral artery. It didn’t tumble like you see them do so often. Instead, it went straight up and came straight down.”
The Ocean City Beach Patrol and Ocean City EMTs responded quickly and began a rather unusual treatment of Stevens.
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4 comments:
Stabbed or impaled? This is how the media bliws crap out of proportion! She said herself! In went in 4 "! Technically I guess it's an impalement. Then again ..... So is a splinter!
Ban the Beach and all Beach goers...
10:48-I agree.The word "impale" sounds a bit Vladish.
It's just a flesh wound!
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