Davide Veglia, CEO of Florida-based company ABTS Convention Services, died in a hit-and-run boating accident on Wednesday. He was with his teenage son on the vessel, who remains seriously injured. As per an NBC 6 South Florida report, the boating accident unfolded in Biscayne Bay, near the Meloy Channel in Miami, at around 8 p.m.
Veglia and his 14-year-old son were riding a small 7-foot dinghy on the day. Their outing turned tragic when another 30-foot boat struck and nearly plowed over their vessel. The collision was so severe that both father and son were immediately ejected into the water. The multi-motor vessel that struck them then fled the scene without stopping to help.
Local eyewitnesses have recalled hearing frantic calls for help from Veglia’s son. One of them, Samuel Londono, spoke to the press and said, “We hear ‘Help, help!’ That’s when I run to the dock, and I see like a silhouette or like a shadow of something, and we make it out and [say], ‘That’s someone, they need help, they need help.”…