that would be William Jefferson Clinton
Obama's father died in a car crash.
Before William Jefferson Blythe (aka Bill Clinton) was born his father was killed in a car accident.
Bill Clinton's father died in a car accident before Clinton was born.
William J. Clinton
Bill Clinton is the man you are thinking of.
President Obama's biological father was Barack Obama Sr. He was rarely in the president's life, and he died in a car accident in 1982 in Kenya.
President Obama's biological father died in a car accident in Kenya in 1982.
To the best of my knowledge no U.S. President ever died of an automobile accident or anything similar. John F Kennedy was shot- while riding in a limousine- but that was a gunshot of an assasin, not an automobile crash.
The 42nd US President, William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton was the biological son of William Jefferson Blythe, Jr. for whom he was named. But his father had been killed in an auto accident three months before Bill was born. When his mother married Roger Clinton (Sr.) in 1950, Bill took the last name of his adoptive stepfather.
If you are asking about President Obama, yes he is alive and well and living in the White House. But if you are asking about his father, who had the same name, the answer is no: his father died in an automobile accident in Kenya in 1982.
President Obama's father died in 1982, due to a car accident.
President Barack Obama was 21 when his father was killed in an automobile accident near his home in Kenya.