No secret: President Joe Biden’s first wife died in a car crash

A recent Instagram post accused President Joe Biden of killing his first wife, Nealia Biden. There is no basis for this claim.

"Yall know Biden killed his first wife and blamed it on a drunk driver and the man hadn’t even been drinking and the police reports have been lost," the July 18 post said.

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Nealia Biden, 30, was driving the family’s station wagon Dec. 18, 1972, when she and Biden’s infant daughter, Naomi, were killed in a collision. Biden’s sons, Beau and Hunter, were injured in the Hockessin, Delaware, crash. Biden, then a Democratic senator from the state, was in Washington, D.C., at the time. 

Police reports have been lost, and a Delaware judge who investigated the crash told CBS News in 2009 that there was no sign that Curtis Dunn, the driver of a truck that hit the Biden family’s car, had been drinking. 

Dunn’s daughter, Pam Hamill, said her father "grieved" over the crash.

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"He was haunted and was tormented by that for years," she said. 

She also said the collision was a "tragic accident" and that "no alcohol was involved." 

We rate claims that Biden killed his first wife Pants on Fire!