John Wadlinger, 32, is sentenced to just shy of 27 years to almost 54 years in state prison for the Feb. 24 crash on Veteran’s Highway at Ford Road in Bristol Township.

Rebecca and Richard Whiddon, of Connecticut, were visiting friends when they were struck and killed in the crash in Bristol Township in February 2024.

The aftermath of the February crash that killed Richard and Rebecca Whiddon resembled a "battlefield," prosecutors said. John Wadlinger was driving more than 73 mph when he caused the collision.

John Thomas Wadlinger Jr., 32, of Bensalem, is headed to state prison for 26 to 56 years for causing the crash that killed a Connecticut couple last February while he