There's a problem with this lede:
Only 15 minutes before the start of his wedding, local soon-to-be newlywed Scott Forsythe died in a car accident while traveling to the event itself.
Now,
in many ways it's not a bad lede. It conveys the meaning fairly well.
But what is incorrect -- a fatal, really -- is what it says: that
Forsythe lost his life just moments before he became a newlywed.
Read
that literally: it doesn't say he was a newlywed-to-be, or that the crash happened 15 minutes before his wedding was to start; it says the wedding took place and ol' Scott got hitched, all "Weekend At
Bernie's" style.
This lede go that point right:
While speeding toward the church, a 22-year-old man died in a car accident just 15 minutes before he was to be married.
Make sure that you say what you mean, and that you mean what you say.
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