Caleb Whiteleather, 18, killed in head-on crash with alleged drunk driver Christopher Lening, 27, on SC 462 in Ridgeland, South Carolina
Man charged in fatal crash that claimed life of Bluffton teen(link is external)
The Jasper County Sheriff's Office says Lening was driving a pickup truck on SC 462 near Dawson Landing Road when he crossed the center line crashing head on with a Ford Mustang driven by 18-year-old Caleb Whiteleather.
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Whiteleather was a quiet young man with a big personality, LowCountry Community Church High School and College Pastor Rob Jacobs said on Monday morning.
Always the tallest kid in his grade, Whiteleather was a “quintessential lead-by-example kind of student,” Jacobs said.
Drunken driver sentenced to prison for killing Bluffton college student (link is external)
The Fourteenth Circuit Solicitor's Office says a 28-year-old Ridgeland man charged with felony DUI following a head-on collision that killed a Bluffton college student has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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