A serious event has occurred in South Carolina. A woman has tragically died after a beach umbrella got stuck in her chest.
Tammy Perreault was killed when a Garden City beach umbrella broke from its support shaft. She died an hour after the incident in the hospital.
Meanwhile, Scotty's Beach Bar paid tribute to the 63-year-old in a post on social media, as she was a longtime regular there.
"Today, with heavy hearts, we mourn the loss of a dear friend and good-hearted native. "Some things we will never understand, but what we do know is that no one has a bad thing to say about this woman," they wrote.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that about 3,000 people are injured by beach umbrellas each year. As a result, the federal agency has called: "Beach umbrellas can be dangerous, even deadly. Make sure your beach umbrella stays firmly planted in the sand!
