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The empty speedboat was filmed spinning out of control after the incident
Police have begun an inquiry into a speedboat crash off the north Cornish coast which killed a man and his daughter and injured four others.
The pair - a 51-year-old man and an eight-year-old girl - were among six people thrown from the boat in the Camel Estuary, off Padstow.
Four other family members are in hospital with serious injuries.
The vessel was stopped after a local waterskiing instructor jumped on board and brought it under control.
The injured family members are thought to have been hit by the boat while it was going round in circles.
Life-threatening injuriesThe four injured are a 39-year-old woman, a four-year-old boy and two girls aged 10 and 12. They suffered leg injuries of varying degrees of severity, John Oliver from South Western Ambulance Service said.
The boat is owned by the family, who are from London, police said.
Supt Jim Colwell of Devon and Cornwall Police said some of their injuries were "life threatening" as well as "life changing".
End Quote Simon Lewins EyewitnessThe screams coming from the people in the water were pretty bad"
"The key lines of enquiry are primarily witness enquiries, those eye witnesses that were at the scene at the time and have already started to provide us with information as to what the circumstances were and what the boat was doing at the time of the incident," he said.
Supt Colwell added that a mechanical examination of the boat, with the involvement of the Marine Action Investigation Branch, would take place "just to make sure there were no factors to do with the vessel itself which may have caused this incident".
The sunny bank holiday weather had drawn a lot of visitors to the harbourside, and the surrounding waters of the Camel Estuary were said to have been calm on Sunday afternoon when the accident happened.
'Heroic' rescuerAt about 15:50 BST, Falmouth Coastguard received a number of reports from members of the public that six people had been thrown from a speedboat.
They reported seeing the boat "out of control for a short time" and striking some other boats, Jo Rawlings, from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, told the BBC.
Dog walker Simon Lewins, from Wadebridge, said he watched as a big, powerful boat going "a bit too fast" suddenly turned right, "depositing" people into the water.
"It kept going off in ever decreasing circles. The screams coming from the people in the water were pretty bad."
The man who leapt on to the out-of-control speedboat was named locally as Charlie Toogood, from Camel Ski School.
He jumped on the boat, managed to stop it and take it away.
"I tell you what, this guy is a hero," Mr Lewins told the BBC.
Coastguards then helped some of the injured as a helicopter landed on the beach, he added.
Kill cordThe injured were being treated at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency said.
Matt Pavitt, the Coastguard sector manager for North Cornwall, said the injured four were "badly shaken up".
He added: "There appears to have been some interaction between the boat and the group of people in the water, which has resulted in a number of serious injuries".
Alex Greig, of Falmouth Coastguard, said safety features in such vessels usually included a so-called "kill cord".
He said: "If somebody is thrown away from the console, it should disable the engine.
"But if it's not working, or not being worn correctly, there is the chance that if you are thrown away from the boat, it will continue to move under its own power.
"The way an outboard engine works, because it hangs loose on the back of the boat, it will actually put the boat into a very tight circle and continue round at the speed it was left going at originally."
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