Woman killed by flying umbrella while dining outdoors at South Carolina restaurant

CLAREDON, S.C. – Tragedy has unfolded successful South Carolina aft a windy time led to the decease of a pistillate eating outdoors implicit the weekend.

A household was eating astatine the Driftwood Grill successful Clarendon County, South Carolina, erstwhile the unthinkable happened: a pistillate was struck with deadly unit by a flying umbrella.

"The decedent and her hubby were eating astatine the section edifice connected the patio erstwhile a abrupt beardown wind blew an umbrella from a table, which struck the decedent successful the caput and cervix area," work a property merchandise from the Claredon County Coroners Office.

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05 August 2021, Schleswig-Holstein, Fischerhütte: A array with a stretched umbrella stands connected the enactment of the Kiel Canal successful the morning. 

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According to the Clarendon County Coroner’s Office, dispatchers received a telephone regarding a laceration coiled astatine astir 9:40 p.m. successful Summerton, South Carolina.

Upon accomplishment astatine the scene, instrumentality enforcement and EMS recovered the pistillate unresponsive with a life-threatening coiled to the caput and cervix area.

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First responders performed life-saving measures but were incapable to revive the woman, and she was pronounced dormant conscionable implicit an hr later.

An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday successful Charleston, arsenic this lawsuit is being investigated arsenic an accident.