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Wrongful death suit filed in fatal boat crash

Citing the “shock and horror” of watching his wife and child die in a boat crash, a Penn Valley man has filed a wrongful death suit against the man investigators said was drunk at the time of the crash. Paul Peterlin was injured and his wife, Cynthia, and 12-year-old daughter, Sophie, were killed Sept. 15 on Englebright Lake when their boat was struck by another motorboat piloted by Jeffrey Joel Sandow, authorities said. “This was a horrific crash, a real tragedy,” said Philip Aman, a San Diego-based attorney representing Peterlin. Sandow, 53, of Auburn, was arrested on suspicion of two …

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