A young girl crashed her car late Sunday night when she hit a mudslide that covered most of U.S. Route 52. The girl did not suffer any severe injuries in the crash. Her car reportedly went airborne and traveled from one end of the mudslide to another. She is attended to by Varney native Dr. Scott Akers, who was in the area visiting family. Photo/Michael Browning
The young girl, whose identity was not available to The Logan Banner at press time this morning, was shaken up in the single-vehicle crash, but was did not suffer life-threatening injuries.
The road is blocked in front of the Marcum Cemetery where a mountain slide covered the graveyard in mud, rocks and debris when flash flooding hit early Saturday morning.
The car reportedly hit the mudslide and went airborne, traveling several feet before landing in the muck. The girl was attended to by Dr. Scott Akers, a Matewan High graduate and Pikeville, Ky., physician, who was in the area visiting his family.
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