{"id":95677,"date":"2018-07-10T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=95677"},"modified":"2018-07-10T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:06:37","slug":"fatal-boat-accident-on-otter-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=95677","title":{"rendered":"Fatal boat accident on Otter Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-61900\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/state-police-seal-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"163\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/state-police-seal-150x150.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/state-police-seal-150x150-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/>Fatal boat accident on Otter Lake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, July 9, 2018, State Police responded to a boat collision with injuries located on Otter Lake in the town of Forestport.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation revealed that\u00a0Francis R. Eckrich, 45, was operating his 2000 Lowe boat at a high rate of speed on the lake. A tube was attached to his boat towing his 12-year-old son\u00a0Kaden Eckrich and another child. Mr. Eckrich encounters a pontoon boat anchored on the lake and at the last second takes evasive action to avoid colliding with the pontoon boat.<\/p>\n<p>This evasive movement causes Kaden Eckrich\u00a0(age 12) to be ejected from the tube, striking the pontoon boat causing massive internal injuries. Kaden was pronounced deceased at St. Elizabeth&#8217;s Hospital in Utica. The other child on the tube, age 12 was also ejected from the tube but was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the incident is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>State Police were assisted at the scene by the town of Webb Police Department and Otter Lake Fire Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatal boat accident on Otter Lake On Monday, July 9, 2018, State Police responded to a boat collision with injuries located on Otter Lake in the town of Forestport. Investigation revealed that\u00a0Francis R. Eckrich, 45, was operating his 2000 Lowe boat at a high rate of speed on the lake. A tube was attached to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}