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A driver died after crashing right into a safety barrier close to the White House on Saturday evening round 10:30, prompting an investigation by the Washington police division, the Secret Service mentioned in an announcement.
“There is not any risk or public security implications,” Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesman, wrote on social media, including that the crash posed no risk to the White House. The metropolis’s police division mentioned it was investigating the crash “only as a traffic crash,” however the Secret Service mentioned it might conduct a separate investigation into the motive force’s background.
President Biden was at his residence in Wilmington, Del., on the time of the crash, having arrived there on Friday night.
The crash occurred on the jap perimeters of the White House, close to the intersection of fifteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, a six-lane boulevard that connects the White House and the U.S. Capitol, the Washington police mentioned. The police arrived on the scene about quarter-hour after the crash and pronounced the motive force, an grownup male, dead.
Some pictures of the incident from WJLA in Washington confirmed a closely broken silver sedan crashed a couple of ft into the outermost White House barricade that instructs drivers getting into the premises to cease.
In January, the police took a driver into custody after a automobile crashed right into a safety barrier on the identical intersection. And final May, a 19-year-old man crashed a rented U-Haul truck into White House safety boundaries. He instructed the authorities that he had been planning to kill Mr. Biden, who was on the White House on the time.
In December, a Delaware man who the authorities mentioned was driving whereas intoxicated crashed into Mr. Biden’s motorcade whereas the president was speaking with reporters on the road in downtown Wilmington. That crash was thought of unintentional, and nobody was injured.
