LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Crews say a woman drowned on Lake Cumberland Tuesday night.

Russell County Search and Rescue says they responded to the Alligator 1 boat ramp around 6 p.m. Witnesses saw a jet ski crash into a nearby bank.

The rescue team found the rider, a 55-year-old woman, in the water. She was pronounced dead.

Crews say she wasn’t wearing a life jacket at the time of the crash.

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