Lifeguard recounts being impaled by an umbrella pole on a N.J. beach A New Jersey lifeguard who was impaled by an umbrella left a hospital on Thursday and later recounted the terrifying ordeal.

A beach day turned into a scene straight out of a horror movie for a lifeguard after she was impaled by an umbrella. The incident happened Wednesday morning at Asbury Park’s 3rd Avenue Beach ...

A female lifeguard was impaled so deeply with a beach umbrella at the Jersey Shore that it had to be cut into smaller pieces with a saw before she could be taken to the hospital, officials said.