Woman in Britain dies after metal straw pierces her eye in freak accident


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  • Thursday, 11 Jul 2019

Elena Struthers-Gardnerhad collapsed in the kitchen of her home in Dorset while carrying a mason-jar style drinking glass with a 10-inch stainless steel straw fixed onto the screw top lid.PHOTO: ELENA L. J. STRUTHERS-GARDNER/FACEBOOK.

LONDON (ANN): A 60-year-old woman in Britain died after a reusable metal straw pierced through her eye in a freak accident.

Elena Struthers-Gardner had collapsed in the kitchen of her home in Dorset while carrying a mason-jar style drinking glass with a 10-inch stainless steel straw fixed onto the screw top lid.

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