SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NEW JERSEY — A British woman's Jersey Shore holiday took a terrible turn after she figured in a freak accident with a beach umbrella.<br /><br />WPVI reports that Margaret Reynolds had been relaxing at Seaside Heights Monday afternoon when a particularly strong gust of wind suddenly blew through the area.<br /><br />The wind uprooted a big beach umbrella and sent it flying toward the 67-year-old Londoner, which then impaled her right ankle with one of its thick aluminum spokes.<br /><br />A pediatrician and an EMT who happened to be on the beach tended to Reynolds and applied a tourniquet until emergency responders arrived and used a bolt cutter to cut the spoke off the umbrella frame.<br /><br />She was rushed to a hospital with a piece of metal still in her ankle, but it's since been dislodged.<br /><br />Reynolds was in good condition as of Tuesday, and already dismissed the incident as "just an accident" in true British fashion.<br /><br />Police say one way to prevent these impalements is to plant the umbrella at least two feet into the ground, with a back-and-forth motion instead of circular.
