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Metal drinking straw warning after death of woman impaled through eye



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.

The 10ins stainless steel straw entered her left eye socket and pierced her brain.

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.

The eco-friendly straws have increased in popularity as a replacement for single-use plastic straws as part of the fight against plastic waste.

What a way to fucking go

[Barbie Dangerous]

This freak accident

[Vonc2002]

Why tf would u use a metal drinking straw anyway

[Gilgamesh.]

Why tf would u use a metal drinking straw anyway

It's supposed to be an eco-friendly alternative to plastic. Obviously it's not that friendly 

[Barbie Dangerous]

Why tf would u use a metal drinking straw anyway

Everyone's not wasteful like you

[Kurama]

D

[Navyman]

Life is so damn Crazy. You trying to save the environment and get taken out by this shit. 

I guess we gotta leave here one way or another.

[Gilgamesh.]

[Vonc2002]

Damn im only using plastic and am never gonna die while drinking water

[Lazarus]

Damn.