The investigating trooper believes a 21-year-old Whitakers area woman may have negotiated a curve too fast before over-correcting and driving into a creek most likely Tuesday morning.

Trooper D.P. Efird of the state Highway Patrol said this afternoon Britinae Rachelle Whitehead had just left her boyfriend’s house in Enfield when the crash occurred on Adcock Road near Melton Bridge Road.

She arrived at his around 8 a.m. and left at 9 a.m. Tuesday, the last time she was seen alive.

Her parents called the Nash County Sheriff’s Office to report her missing.

It wasn’t until Thursday that family members, retracing her route, saw skid marks on the road that led into the creek. “No one thought the creek was deep enough to cover the car,” the trooper said.

Family members notified the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office and the Enfield Volunteer Fire Department was dispatched to the scene.

The car would not be discovered until a diver jumped in the creek and landed on the car, Efird said.

Foul play is not suspected. Family members told investigators Whitehead did have a history of seizures and an autopsy is scheduled. “She may have taken the curve a little too fast,” the trooper said.