Security scare near Joe Biden as car collides with motorcade
- Car collides into parked vehicle in US president’s motorcade outside Delaware campaign headquarters
- US Secret Service agents cornered the car and pulled weapons on the driver, who held his hands up
A car crashed into a Secret Service vehicle attached to Joe Biden’s motorcade on Sunday, with the security scare startling the US president as he left his campaign headquarters in Delaware.
After a loud bang caused by a sedan slamming into an SUV positioned in a nearby intersection about 40 metres (130 feet) from Biden, security personnel rushed the president into a waiting vehicle and he was whisked away from the building in downtown Wilmington.
“Both the president and first lady are fine,” a White House official told an Agene France-Presse reporter who witnessed the incident.
“Today, at approximately 8.09pm, a Secret Service vehicle securing the president’s motorcade route was struck by another vehicle in Wilmington,” Secret Service spokesperson Special Agent Steve Kopek said.
“There was no protective interest associated with this event and the president’s motorcade departed without incident,” he added.