Metal drinking straw warning after death of woman impaled through eye

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Metal straws should be used with caution, a coroner has said, after a retired jockey died when she fell onto one which impaled her eye and caused a traumatic brain injury.

Elena Struthers-Gardner, 60, was carrying a mason-jar style drinking glass with a screw-top lid in her kitchen in Poole, Dorset, when she collapsed.Today a coroner said metal drinking straws should never be used with a lid that fixes them in place, and “great care should be taken” while using them.

 

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I think we’re missing the point here, the straw was still useable so proved its existence as reusable

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