LINCOLN COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - A boy is dead after a golf cart crash in Lincoln County.

According to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, it happened Sunday afternoon on South Fishing Creek Road.

The sheriff’s office says the golf cart was being driven by a female juvenile when it went off the road and overturned.

They say a male juvenile passenger died from his injuries at the hospital.

The coroner tells WKYT the driver is 15 years old. We’re told the victim has been identified as 13-year-old Dawson Rapp, a 7th grader at Lincoln County Middle School.

The case is now under investigation.

Lincoln County Schools released this statement:

We are deeply saddened to share that our school community has suffered a heartbreaking loss with the passing of one of our 7th-grade students, Dawson Ra

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