A young man who died after a car accident in Dunedin\u00a0last week\u00a0is being remembered as \u201ca funny, caring and loyal mate\u201d\u00a0by many whose lives have been \u201cchanged forever\u201d by his death.<\/p>\n
Caleb Francis MacGregor died in hospital on July 26, following a crash\u00a0on State Highway 1, in Caversham.<\/p>\n
In his death notice, the 19-year-old\u2019s\u00a0family said he had left them \u201cway too early\u201d\u00a0and they were \u201cdevastated beyond words\u201d.<\/p>\n
He was remembered as a \u201cloving son and best wee man\u201d, an \u201cadored and loving brother\u201d\u00a0and a \u201cdoted on\u201d and\u00a0\u201cadored\u201d grandson and cousin.<\/p>\n
On social media, others said he was a \u201cbright young man\u201d who \u201clit up rooms\u201d with his smile and \u201ccheeky grin\u201d, and many said they were grateful for \u201cevery laugh, every drink and every memory\u201d they had with him.<\/p>\n
Friends\u00a0and people in the local sporting community also paid tribute to him\u00a0as a \u201cterrific, nice-natured kid\u201d who was \u201csuch a good mate\u201d to many of his friends, particularly those from Otago Boys\u2019 High School.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaleb, you were such a nice guy to have around, our family loved you,\u201d one person said.<\/p>\n
Dunedin Police \u00a0continue\u00a0to investigate the crash and are calling for witnesses with\u00a0dashcam footage which may show how the crash happened.<\/p>\n
A celebration of Caleb\u2019s life will be held at Campbell and Sons, in\u00a0Mosgiel, at 10.30am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man who died after a car accident in Dunedin\u00a0last week\u00a0is being remembered as \u201ca funny, caring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-556688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}