{"id":666549,"date":"2026-05-26T18:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666549\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:55:11","slug":"us-woman-killed-after-wind-blown-umbrella-strikes-her-neck-at-restaurant-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/666549\/","title":{"rendered":"US woman killed after wind-blown umbrella strikes her neck at restaurant | South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A woman in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/south-carolina\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Carolina<\/a> died in a freak accident after she was struck in the neck by a restaurant table umbrella that had been picked up by a strong gust of wind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Local NBC TV news station WYFF4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/woman-killed-by-flying-umbrella-lake-restaurant-sc\/71401432\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that the incident happened at the Driftwood Grill in Summerton when the woman was dining outside on the restaurant patio with her husband on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The umbrella was blown loose and into the air, striking the woman \u2013 later identified as Dana Weinger \u2013 and leading to serious lacerations to her throat. She died at the scene despite the efforts of first responders to save her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a Facebook post, the Driftwood Grill said: \u201cThis has impacted many people \u2013 including staff members, guests, first responders, families and community members \u2013 and we are grateful for the continued support, prayers, understanding and encouragement being shown throughout the area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman in South Carolina died in a freak accident after she was struck in the neck by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-666549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}