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(Monday, December 18, 1972, 2:30 p.m. EST) — Neilia Hunter Biden, the 30-year-old wife of U.S. Senator-elect (and future U.S. Vice-President and President) Joe Biden, was killed today in a traffic accident, along with the couple’s 13-month-old daughter, Naomi.

Neilia was driving with her three children west along rural Valley Road in Hockessin, Delaware. At the intersection with Delaware Route 7 (Limestone Road), she pulled out in front of a tractor-trailer truck traveling north along Route 7.

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Police determined that Neilia drove into the path of the tractor-trailer.

All four occupants were taken to Wilmington General Hospital, where Neilia and Naomi were pronounced dead on arrival, but Beau and Hunter both survived with multiple serious injuries.

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The truck driver, identified as Curtis C. Dunn, 33, of Avondale, Pa., escaped without any major injury.

Two weeks after the crash, Joe, 30, was sworn into the Senate at the hospital, where Beau and Hunter were being treated.