Teenager 'drowns' in freak accident after her hair clogs up the shower

'We’re thinking she blacked out in the bathtub and fell and hit her head,' says Brianne Rapp's father, Michael

A teenage girl is thought to have drowned after her hair clogged up the plug point and filled up the bathtub where she had collapsed.

Brianne Marie Rapp's family believe she may have fallen over in the shower as she was getting ready for school.

The 17-year-old was found by her mother with the water overflowing in the bathtub at her home in Butler, a small town around 35 miles north of Pittsburgh.

“We’re thinking she blacked out in the bathtub and fell and hit her head and was found by my ex,” her father Michael Rapp told CBS News. “We don’t know if maybe hair clogged the drain but the tub overflowed.”

He added that his daughter was on medication for a thyroid problem and had blacked out a few times before.

He has set up an online fundraising page to cover the costs of the funeral.

The coroner has not yet released the cause of death so it not clear what caused Ms Rapp to fall. However, Police said they were not treating the death as suspicious.

Haile Slupe told the news channel that she found it hard to believe her friend was no longer with her.

“I was at her house every weekend. I’d go hang out. I’d text her mum and surprise her,” she said.