By The opinion
Dec 17, 2023, 10:44 PM EST
A car crashed into a van from President Joe Biden’s security team motorcadewhich was parked just when another vehicle picked up the president, this Sunday night in Delaware.
Images posted on social media show President Biden and first lady Jill Biden as they had just left the re-election campaign headquarters in downtown Wilmington shortly after 8:00 p.m. local time.
According to local media, a man driving a silver sedan crashed into a black pickup truck about 200 feet from where Biden was standing. Secret Service personnel surrounded the vehicle and waved the driver out with his hands up.
The first lady managed to get into a vehicle and just when the president was about to get in, the crash of a car against one of the vans in the caravan was heard, which was blocking an intersection and was several meters away.
Biden was led to his waiting vehicle, where his wife was already seated, before being quickly driven back to his home. Otherwise, his schedule was not affected by the incident.
“Today, at approximately 8:09 p.m., a Secret Service vehicle securing the route of the president’s motorcade was struck by another vehicle in Wilmington, DE,” the spokesperson said. said US Secret Service spokesman Special Agent Steve Kopek. “There was no protective interest associated with this event and the president’s motorcade departed without incident.”
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