2023-08-05 21:20:01
Off the Amalfi Coast, a serious accident occurred between a small motor boat and a yacht with 70 people on board. According to the captain of the yacht, the pilot of the motorboat abruptly and inexplicably changed direction to rush towards the yacht, hitting it at a place where Adrienne Vaughan, 45, director of Bloomsbury publishing for the United States – who notably edited Harry Potter –, was sunbathing with her husband and two children.
She was thrown overboard, along with her 12-year-old daughter. Adrienne Vaughan died, the child escaped unharmed. Adrienne Vaughan’s husband was also injured and hospitalized, as was the pilot of the small boat, who has several broken ribs.
An investigation opened for “manslaughter”
At the hospital, the latter was tested to see if he was under the influence of alcohol or drugs, but the results “are not necessarily significant”, declared during a press conference Giuseppe Borrelli, chief prosecutor of the Salerno region, refusing to confirm the assertions of certain local media speaking of traces of cocaine in the blood.
An investigation has been opened for “manslaughter” and “attempt to cause a shipwreck”, he added. The investigators questioned the approximately 70 people present on board this rental yacht, he further indicated, without however confirming the information given by the Italian media according to which the yacht had been rented for a wedding, with in particular guests Americans and Germans.
In a newspaper interview The Republic, the yacht’s captain, Tony Gallo, said the small boat had “suddenly, inexplicably, performed an almost kamikaze maneuver”. “It was coming from the opposite direction and suddenly it turned at a right angle, diving under my bow,” he said.
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