The woman remained calm throughout the ordeal. A British tourist’s beach outing ended on a painfully freakish note after the spike of a wind-blown umbrella impaled her in Seaside Heights, New ...

FOX8 reported that Rawls “went to the beach and held death in her hand.” Fortunately, she wasn’t stung, but the thought that she might have been stung persisted and “terrified” her.

The umbrella went through her upper left shoulder and came out her back, he added. The woman was reportedly about 19 or 20 years old, ABC reported. Her identity has not yet been released.

ASBURY PARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- A lifeguard was impaled by a beach umbrella in Asbury Park on Wednesday morning, according to officials. It happened near Third Avenue around 9:30 a.m.