A Swiss woman was crushed to death in front of her horrified children as she tried and failed to stop a boat colliding with a bridge in Italy. The 42-year-old mother panicked when she saw that the houseboat was about to hit a lowered drawbridge in Jesolo, near Venice. A firefighter who responded to the boating disaster said the children had 'seen the whole thing' before their eyes. Collision: The woman was crushed to death between this boat and this bridge in northern Italy, in front of her horrified childrenTown officials in Jesolo are probing the procedure for raising the drawbridge, which was meant to take five minutes. A firefighter who attended the horrific scene in northern Italy said: 'The children had to watch the whole thing.

Source: Daily Mail May 03, 2019 14:06 UTC