A young couple in Maryland were killed in a car crash on Valentines Day - their six-month wedding anniversary - when a car crossed over the centerline and smashed into them, police said.
Family and friends of Daniel and Kayla Amos, aged 21 and 20, have acknowledged the heartbreaking irony in the pair's death, after many said they were too young when they married last August.
'They were meant to be together,' Daniel Palmer, an executive pastor at the Chesapeake Church in Huntingtown, where the couple attended services, told The Capital Gazette.
'All us old people said, ''You have to wait. You're too young''. We were proven wrong.'
Daniel and Kayla Amos, aged 21 and 20 (pictured at their wedding in August), were struck by a car in Edgewater, Maryland, and killed on Sunday while they were celebrating their six-month wedding anniversary
Soul mates: Despite family and friends saying they were too young to be married, the couple wed last summer
Marry me? The two, who married in August, were described as 'soul mates' who 'fell for each other instantly'
The couple were traveling southbound on Solomons Island Road in Edgewater, Maryland, around 4:26 p.m. on Sunday when a 2002 Toyota Camry travelling in the other direction crossed the centerline and struck their car.
A third car then hit both vehicles.
Daniel Amos was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife died at an area hospital.
The driver of the Toyota, Lauren Scott, 27, of Edgewater, was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in a serious condition.
The driver of the third car - a Ford - Joseph Smith, 32, of Georgetown, Delaware, had minor injures and refused medical treatment at the scene.
Police do not believe alcohol or drugs were a factor in the crash, which remains under investigation.
Happy: The couple met when they were in high school. They had moved in together following their wedding and were excited about their home together, friends say
Daniel and Kayla were active members of Chesapeake Church, where Daniel was an arts staff leader and guitar player.
Kayla worked at Maertens Fine Jewelry & Gifts and was training to be a barista.
Matthew Wright, Daniel's best friend, said the two connected immediately during Kayla's last year at Patuxent High School. She was 17; he was 18.
'It took him a month to figure out he loved her,' Wright told The Capital Gazette.
'Six months in, he's talking about marrying her. They just fit together.'
'You couldn't imagine seeing one without the other.'
In memoriam: Kayla's sister, Samantha Cosner, posted this touching tribute to Facebook on Monday
Kayla's younger sister, Samantha Cosner, paid a touching tribute to her sibling on Facebook, posting photos from their childhood and a lengthy note.
'I know this was Gods plan. Kayla and Dan were soul mates from heaven,' she wrote in the post on Monday.
'The moment they began to know each other they fell for each other.
'Dan and Kayla are together in heaven now.
'Never pass up a moment with your family, it's priceless and when it's gone, it's only a memory.'
Daniel Amos, 21, and Kayla Amos, 20, were traveling southbound on Solomons Island Road in Edgewater, Maryland, when the driver of a Toyota Camry crossed the centerline and struck their car on Sunday
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ShareLarry Patin, the stewardship pastor at Chesapeake Church, said Kayla and Daniel were meant to be together.
While tragic, Patin said there was something right that the two left life together.
'They were soul mates,' Patin said.
'I don't know how she would've lived without him.'
Friends of the couple told The Capital Gazette the two were so close 'you couldn't imagine seeing one without the other'
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