Menendez wants beachgoers protected from flying umbrellas

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New Jersey's senior U.S. senator wants federal officials to take more aggressive action to protect beachgoersfrom wind-swept beach umbrellas.Bob Menendez (D) held a news conference yesterday in Manasquan, N.J., to once again call on the ConsumerProduct Safety Commission to improve its regulations and develop an aggressive campaign to educatebeachgoers on the dangers the umbrellas can pose if they're not properly staked in the sand.But he stressed that he wasn't calling for a ban on umbrellas.A woman was speared in the leg by a beach umbrella last summer in the Jersey Shore community of SeasideHeights. Another woman was killed by a flying umbrella in Virginia in 2016, and an umbrella nearly impaled atoddler last month in South Carolina.