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Boat Crash Left Woman Injured: Lawsuit

A Beecher man crashed his boat into the boat she was riding on, the lawsuit said.

A boat crash on the Kankakee River left a woman injured, according to a lawsuit filed in Will County court.

Patricia Ritchey was a passenger on a boat when she was injured in a September 2014 collision, the lawsuit said.

A Beecher man named Jack Lehman drove his own boat “at an unsafe speed” and hit the boat on which Ritchey was riding, the suit said.

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The lawsuit does not specify the injuries supposedly suffered by Ritchey but does say she wants at least $50,000.

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