Lincoln teenager dies in mudding wreck

A 16-year-old Lincoln County girl died Sunday after the vehicle she was in overturned in a creek near Poca according to Putnam County Sheriff Steve Deweese.

Authorities said Olivia Marie McCormick, of Yawkey, and her friend were mudding in the Heizer Creek area Sunday afternoon when the Jeep they were in flipped into the creek. Sheriff Deweese said it was submerged. The driver made it out of the vehicle, McCormick did not.

Sheriff Deweese said she died at Thomas Memorial Hospital in South Charleston.