Jennifer Lower Carter and William Carter had a storybook romance — a whirlwind love — and a life together that was only just beginning when their tale turned into a tragedy on an Oregon highway last month.

The newlyweds were traveling back from their wedding reception in eastern Idaho when their SUV slammed into a semitruck sprawled across both lanes of U.S. 20 east of Bend.

It was 9:30 p.m. on Nov. 24. The couple, who everyone called Jenny and Billy , had been married 16 days.

“There’s never been a happier marriage on the planet,” Dennis Carter, father of the groom, said in an interview Friday. “They never had to spend one minute apart.”

A police officer told him and his wife that the crash, in the dark of night, had been unavoidable.

Investigators began probing whether the truck

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