A car plowed into an SUV that was guarding President Joe Biden’s motorcade Sunday night while the president was leaving a visit to his campaign headquarters in Delaware.
The president and first lady Jill Biden were unharmed; Biden was photographed visibly stunned the moment the impact happened in Wilmington, Del.
Biden was walking from his campaign office to his waiting armored SUV when a sedan hit a U.S. Secret Service vehicle that was being used to close off intersections near the headquarters for the president’s departure.
The sedan then tried to continue into a closed-off intersection, before Secret Service personnel surrounded the vehicle with weapons drawn and instructed the driver to put his hands up.
Biden stopped and looked over toward the commotion, surprised, before he was ushered into the vehicle, where his wife was already seated, before being driven swiftly back to their home.
His schedule was otherwise unaffected by the incident.
Steve Kopek, a U.S. Secret Service spokesman, said the president’s motorcade departed without incident. Local Wilmington police were handling the crash, which means the driver was not considered a serious threat to the president.
BREAKING: A car has crashed into President Joe Biden’s parked motorcade in Wilmington, Delaware, leaving Biden “shocked.”
According to the Daily Mail, Biden’s Secret Service agents pulled their guns on the driver who rammed into one of the SUVs.
The man who was driving the car… pic.twitter.com/AgDknqHgl2
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 18, 2023
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