Friday 18 November 2022 08:11 PM Naomi Biden's fiancé lost his brother in car crash similar to one that killed ... trends now
Just like his soon-to-be grandfather-in-law President Joe Biden, the man poised to marry Naomi Biden at the White House this weekend, is no stranger to grief.
One of four children, Peter Neal, 25, experienced the sudden loss of his oldest brother in a fatal car crash that echoes the one that took the president's first wife and his one-year-old daughter, Naomi, the namesake of the bride-to-be.
Neal's mother claims that she foresaw the death of her son during her own near-death experience.
Neal, a University of Pennsylvania Law School grad, grew up in a tiny town on the outskirts of Jackson, Wyoming.
Peter Neal, 25, a University of Pennsylvania Law School grad, is set to tie the knot with Hunter Biden's daughter Naomi Biden at the White House South Lawn this weekend
Peter's oldest brother Willie Neal (pictured with his parents) died in a 2009 car accident that seems to echo the crash that killed Joe Biden's first wife and his one-year-old daughter
The Neal family's tragic loss resembles mirrors that of the Bidens, pictured above months before the car crash that killed his wife Neilia and their one-year-old daughter Naomi
Neal, the son of two doctors, grew up in a small town outside Jackson, Wyoming
The son of two doctors, his family embraced outdoor life in the West.
His brother Willie, who was a delegate at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, won eight state Nordic ski titles in high school.
He interned for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and planned to attend Middlebury College in the fall of 2009.
In June of that year, 19-year-old Willie was training in Maine for the chance to compete in the biathlon in the Winter Olympics when he was fatally struck by a distracted driver.
The young man behind the wheel, Erik Lundquist, who was 18 at the time, admitted that he had looked down to retrieve his phone when he smashed into Willie Neal, but prosecutors refused to bring charges.
The decision that left Peter Neal's mother, Dr. Mary Neal, 64, 'further disappointed and disillusioned by the legal system.'
Similarly, Biden's first wife, Neilia Biden, and his one-year-old daughter, Naomi, were tragically killed when their car was struck by a tractor trailer in 1972, two weeks before he was sworn in as the 29-year-old newly elected junior senator for Delaware.
Willie Neal, a talented skier and who once interned for Senator John Kerry, was training in Maine to compete in the biathlon in the Winter Olympics before his death on June 21, 2009
Willie was a delegate at the 2008 Democratic National Convention and won eight state Nordic ski titles in high school
The Willie Neal Environmental Awareness Fund was established in his honor as he was known for his passion for 'family, life, skiing, politics, and the planet'
The president's two sons Beau and Hunter survived the accident with serious injuries.
The driver of the tractor trailer, Curtis Dunn, was also not charged.
Though the president has often said that the driver was drunk, police found no indication that either driver had been drinking, according to the Newark Post.
'A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly — and I never pursued it — drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons,' Biden said back in 2008.
At the time Dunn's daughter, incensed by the unfounded accusation, later demanded an apology from the president.
'The story already is tragic enough, why did he have to sensationalize it by
