Bloomsbury USA president Adrienne Vaughan was reportedly thrown from a motorboat in the crash, before being struck repeatedly by the boat's propeller.
showed guests on the sailboat partying at the moment the speedboat hit, with one woman asking,"What happened?" Moments later, another man looks over the edge:"Jesus Christ," he says."She needs help," says another guest.
"I saw the woman in the water being held up by her children and her husband: she didn't have an arm and the nape of her neck was white, as if blood was not flowing. It was terrible." The Italian coast guard office in Amalfi is investigating the crash. A call to its office wasn't answered, nor was there a response to an emailed request to the Coast Guard for details.
No one aboard the sailboat, which had more than 80 U.S. and German tourists and the crew members on board, was injured.
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