“Welcome to Plathville” star Olivia Plath is grieving the lack of her 15-year-old brother, Micah Meggs, who died in a motorbike accident on Might 4.

“Hey guys, I’m leaping off of social media for a bit. Don’t fear in the event you don’t see me round — I’m taking some area now,” the TLC actuality star, 25, wrote final week through her Instagram Story, in response to Us Weekly.

“I misplaced a youthful brother final evening to an sudden accident and I would like some readability and area for grieving.”

Plath, who can also be a marriage photographer, reminded her followers on Tuesday that she is “on a social media break as a consequence of a household demise” and requested clients to e mail her through her web site as an alternative of DMing her.

In response to Franklin County information outlet The Roanoke Instances, Virginia State Police stated Meggs was driving his electrical bicycle round 10 p.m. in the appropriate lane of a serious freeway when a Honda Accord — which was purportedly touring in the identical lane and in the identical course — struck him.

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Meggs died on the scene whereas the motive force was not injured, VSP stated, including that the crash is beneath investigation.

The ninth of 10 youngsters, Micah is survived by his mother and father, Don and Karen Meggs, and all of his siblings.

In his obituary, his household described him as a “enjoyable loving” teen who “loved spending his time outside” in addition to “enjoying sensible jokes, sharing his understated humorousness and bringing laughs to these he cherished.”

Micah additionally suffered from cerebral palsy attributable to a brachial plexus damage that occurred throughout his delivery, “which made it tough for him to do the issues he loved a lot.”

“Regardless of the bodily difficulties he skilled, Micah by no means complained or let himself be restricted by his incapacity,” his family members shared, asking for donations to the United Brachial Plexus Community (UBPN) “in lieu of flowers.”