He wrote that he "felt God had played a horrible trick" on him,[57] and he had trouble focusing on work.[58][59]
After the truck driver passed away in 1999, Biden in 2001 and 2007 accused the truck driver of drinking before the crash, even though the truck driver was never charged, and the chief prosecutor investigating the case stated that there was no evidence of drunk driving.[60] In 2008, Biden's spokesman said that Biden "fully accepts" that allegations of drunk driving were "false".[61] The truck driver's daughter said that Biden called her after a 2009 media report to apologize "for hurting my family in any way".[62]

Second marriage
Biden and his second wife, Jill, met in 1975 and married in 1977.Biden met the teacher Jill Tracy Jacobs in 1975 on a blind date.[63] They married at the United Nations chapel in New York on June 17, 1977.[64][65] They spent their honeymoon at Lake Balaton in the Hungarian People's Republic.[66][67] Biden credits her with the renewal of his interest in politics and life.[68] Biden is Roman Catholic and attends Mass with his wife, Jill, at St. Joseph's on the Brandywine in Greenville, Delaware.