Posted on 03/09/2020 12:30:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Just a week before Christmas, 1972, the wife of newly-elected Sen. Joe Biden and the couple's baby daughter were killed - and their two sons badly injured - when the Biden family car was broadsided by a truck at an intersection in Delaware.
The truck driver, Curtis Dunn, was never charged in the crash. But, his daughter Pam Hamill says, he too, suffered, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Orr.
"He grieved over that," Hamill said. "He was haunted and was tormented by that for years."
Dunn died in 1999, but since then his family has endured widespread rumors and reports that he had been drinking just before the collision.
At least twice, Biden himself has made public references to alcohol being involved in the crash. In 2007 Biden said the truck driver "allegedly ... drank his lunch." And multiple news outlets, including CBS News, have reported that Dunn was drunk.
Hamill disputes that - saying her dad had not been drinking.
"The truth is, it was a tragic accident," she said. "No alcohol was involved."
The police reports have been lost, but Delaware Judge Jerome Herlihy, who investigated the crash, supports Hamill's claim.
He told CBS News, "There was no indication that the truck driver had been drinking."
And last fall, a spokesman for Biden said that the senator "fully accepts the Dunn family's word that these rumors were false."
Now Pam Hamill simply wants the record to be cleared, and her father's reputation restored
"He was a good, hard working man and wonderful father," she said.
That kind of precision on historical event is beyond Biden gaffe machine
“The police reports have been lost....
Gee, that’s weird...................... “
lost? Huh, that is strange. I wonder if he knew the Clintons back then...
What Biden did in repeating the story that the driver was drunk is not a gaffe. It’s a deliberate lie which tarnished the reputation of an innocent man.
when the Biden family car was broadsided...
There’s not much information here.
Was Joe in the car?
Had the “Biden family car” ran a red light or stop sign.
I suspect that this story has been resurrected to garner sympathy for poor ol’ Joe...(provided he wasn’t driving the “Biden family car”, of course)
Bidens wife was a drunk ,¿,
Make Biden take a polygraph, and find the cop who wrote up the report.
Also, Biden needs to take a test for Alzheimer , we don’t need a brain addled Potus.
Indeed, he should, and if he tests positive, he should withdraw from the race.
Of all the things Biden is, the consummate influence peddler, the crook, the Leftist Democrat, it is this, the slanderer that fills me with disgust for this stain of a human being.
Since I first heard of this, I have tried to rationalize it by saying that kind of thing happening to a person could put them over the edge, but then I heard he first started accusing the other driver of drinking his lunch DECADES after the accident happened.
And he appears to have done it because...he can, as Freeper Fiji Hill averred to in a post above. For political gain, in his sick, twisted mind he slandered that man. A man who did all he could to save the life of Biden’s wife and children.
The man’s family, devastated by the slander, has asked Biden to retract his statement, which Biden refuses to do. Bidens wife was apparently at fault, pulling out of the truck, and all he could do was jackknife his rig and try to administer aid.
I have hurt someone driving (not of my fault) and it has bothered me every single day since then. Every day. I have prayed for that man, obsessed in my mind about it, wondered what I could have done differently. I have no doubt that poor man who hit Bidens first wifes car suffered, and his family inferred that it drove him to an early death because he was anguished over it.
And that scumbag Biden called him a Drunk Driver. No, he isnt Good Ol Joe. He is a mentally twisted, sick, pathologically lying scumbag.
And the even more disgusting thing was, he seemed to manufacture the slander for political gain. That is all it could be. A gazillionth of a point of political gain, and he took it because...he could.
What a scum.
No evidence. How convenient.
Could not agree more.
It makes me angry even to read my own post on that. What a douche bag.
That makes it conclusive that Biden’s wife had a stop sign and the truck driver did not.
If the truck driver had been at fault, you could bet your last dollar that he would have been cited and prosecuted for vehicular homicide; especially because she was the wife of a soon-to-be Senator.
Growing up, my dad never talked about it. He always got very solemn around Christmastime because the anniversary was Dec. 18, and he never wanted to celebrate the holidays, Hamill said. When newspapers had anniversary articles (about the crash), we hid them from dad.
Biden responded in a handwritten note, which, in part, reads, All that I can say is I am sorry for all of us and please know that neither I or my sons feel any animosity whatsoever.
Hamill says that because she fondly recalled those tender correspondences, the revelation of Bidens distorted story is even more overwhelming.
We always felt like our heartstrings were attached to (Bidens) heartstrings. Now we feel stabbed in the back, she said.
https://www.newarkpostonline.com/news/local/daughter-of-man-in-biden-crash-seeks-apology-from-widowed/article_6c9a477e-63be-561b-b771-1330b4cda02d.html
You are right. He is a scumbag.
“Of all the things Biden is, the consummate influence peddler, the crook, the Leftist Democrat, it is this, the slanderer that fills me with disgust for this stain of a human being.
Since I first heard of this, I have tried to rationalize it by saying that kind of thing happening to a person could put them over the edge, but then I heard he first started accusing the other driver of drinking his lunch DECADES after the accident happened.
And he appears to have done it because...he can, as Freeper Fiji Hill averred to in a post above. For political gain, in his sick, twisted mind he slandered that man. A man who did all he could to save the life of Bidens wife and children.
The mans family, devastated by the slander, has asked Biden to retract his statement, which Biden refuses to do. Bidens wife was apparently at fault, pulling out of the truck, and all he could do was jackknife his rig and try to administer aid.
I have hurt someone driving (not of my fault) and it has bothered me every single day since then. Every day. I have prayed for that man, obsessed in my mind about it, wondered what I could have done differently. I have no doubt that poor man who hit Bidens first wifes car suffered, and his family inferred that it drove him to an early death because he was anguished over it.
And that scumbag Biden called him a Drunk Driver. No, he isnt Good Ol Joe. He is a mentally twisted, sick, pathologically lying scumbag.”
I understand your response to your personal experience and I think rational people would do the same. I think that some of these politicians are sociopaths and I could not agree more that Biden is a complete PoS and a clear and present danger to this country....don’t get me started on Comrade Sanders...
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