Police at the time made the determination that Mrs. Biden drove into the path of the oncoming truck, possibly because she was looking the wrong way at a stop sign. I had not known I was capable of such rage. When Hamill made her apology request, the Newark Post reported that the chief prosecutor at the time, Jerome O. Herlihy, said that “there is no evidence” supporting Biden’s longstanding assertion that Dunn might have, in Biden’s words, “drank his lunch” that terrible day. They were on their way to buy a Christmas tree when the accident occurred. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images). Trump's 2020 Supreme Court List Will Drive the Left Crazy. Well, I didn't want to hear anything about a merciful God. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. Neilia and the girl died of their injuries, despite Dunn’s attempts to provide first aid, and the Bidens’ sons were also hurt very badly. I could not speak, only felt this hollow core grow in my chest, like I was gong to be sucked inside a black hole. This account has reached the download cap, additional downloads subject to agreement overage terms. To be at home every day for his young sons, Biden began the practice of commuting every day by Amtrak train for 1½ hours each way from his home in the Wilmington suburbs to Washington, D.C., which he continued to do throughout his Senate career. The video, titled "Joe Biden â My Redemption," will also air on CNN before the first Democratic primary debate Tuesday. You have view only access under this Premium Access agreement. In his memoirs, Biden notes that staffers were taking bets on how long he would last. • But to then spend years impugning the innocent driver who tried to save my own loved ones, despite just have been nearly killed himself? In the speech, given days before his son Beau died of brain cancer, he talks about losing his first wife, Neilia, and his 13-month-old daughter. My 19-year-old self had no way to know just how correct that assessment was. This is the remains of the car in which the wife and daughter of Delaware's U.S. Senator-elect Joseph R. Biden Junior were killed. The underpinnings of my life had been kicked out from under me...and it wasn't just the loss of Neilia and Naomi. 2020 Bustle Digital Group. Mr. Biden, who just turned 30 and is the second youngest person ever elected to the United States Senate, was in Washington interviewing pro spective staff members when he heard about the accident. His wife, Nealia, 30 years old, and his daughter Amy, 18 months, died when the family's station wagon was hit broadside by a flatbed tractor‐trailer on Route 7, the state police said. They married two years later, and had three children together â Beau, Hunter, and Naomi. The following assets contain unreleased and/or restricted content. Copyright ©2020 PJmedia.com/Salem Media. Your EZA account will remain in place for a year. The horizon faded fro my view. Your Getty Images representative will discuss a renewal with you. In moments of fitful sleep I was aware of the dim possibility that I would wake up, truly wake up, and this would not have happened. It was one week before Christmas 1972, and the senator-elect from Delaware awaited his first term. On December 18, 1972, a few weeks after Joe Biden won the U.S. Senate election in Delaware, his (first) wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware. I was always looking for a fight. Beau, Hunt and Naomi had been in the car with Neilia when the accident happened. Your IP: 37.120.175.135 I liked to go at night when I thought there was a better chance of finding a fight. © 2020 Getty Images. Collect, curate and comment on your files. 6047 x 3936 px (20.16 x 13.12 in) - 300 dpi - 10 MB. *, {{ t('save_amount', { amount_saved: formatPrice(pack.amountYouSave) }) }}, {{ t('pack_count_lowercase', { total: pack.packCount }) }}, {{t('compared_with_single_price', {price: formatPrice(selectedSize.price) }) }}, *Packs never expire as long as you sign in at least once a year. I hesitated to post on this story because it is based on one of the saddest events that life could possibly hand anyone. She is Joe’s second wife, after his first wife, Neilia, died in a car accident. Or as Jack Fowler asked back in April of this year, “It was a heartbreaking story all around, and with officials leaving no doubt of the truck driver’s complete innocence, what was the point of doing or saying anything more than letting Neilia and Naomi Biden rest in peace?” The answer to Fowler’s question would seem to be revealed by that POLITICO profile: Biden chose to weaponize his grief, and any collateral damage be damned. Biden thought immediately of his wife, Neilia. Back in 1972, he and his brother Hunter were seriously injured in a car accident that killed their mother, Neilia Biden, and 13-month-old sister, Naomi. There was good news: The doctors assured us that Beau and Hunter would make full recoveries. They flew us to Wilmington, but I didn't know anything for sure until I got to the hospital. Your team's Premium Access agreement is expiring soon. Curtis Dunn was driving the tractor-trailer that collided with the car driven by Biden’s first wife, Neilia.