Secret Service rushes Biden to safety after car plows into SUV in his motorcade

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The Secret Service ushered president Joe Biden and first woman Jill Biden to security on Sunday night time after a automotive ploughed right into a parked SUV that was guarding the presidential motorcade.

Mr Biden was strolling out of his marketing campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware to his ready armoured SUV when a sedan hit a US Secret Service automobile that was closing off intersections for the president’s departure.

The silver sedan, which carried a Delaware licence plate, then tried to proceed right into a closed-off intersection, earlier than Secret Service personnel surrounded the automobile with weapons drawn and instructed the driving force to place his arms up.

Mr Biden was ushered into his ready automobile, the place his spouse was already seated, earlier than being pushed swiftly again to their dwelling. His schedule was in any other case unaffected by the incident.

Particular Agent Steve Kopek, a Secret Service spokesperson, mentioned the automobile that struck was securing the route of Mr Biden’s motorcade.

“There was no protecting curiosity related to this occasion and the President’s motorcade departed with out incident,” Mr Kopek was quoted as saying by NBC Information.

The Bidens had emerged from the Biden-Harris 2024 headquarters in wet downtown Wilmington at 8.07pm after having a meal with members of his re-election staff on the time of the incident, in response to a White Home press pool report.

Moments after Mr Biden responded to a query from a reporter a silver sedan hit what appeared to be a motorcade SUV on the intersection throughout from the doorway of the marketing campaign headquarters, the pool report said.

A reporter requested the president why he was not doing properly within the polls. “They’re the flawed polls,” Mr Biden responded.

Then “there was a loud bang,” mentioned the White Home pool report, “and POTUS was standing outdoors the automobile with a shocked expression on his face.

“A person strolling by loudly mentioned ‘oh my gosh’ when this occurred,” the report added.

Tv footage confirmed Secret Service brokers escorting Mr Biden to his automotive after the affect.

The silver sedan, which sustained injury to its bumper, was rapidly surrounded by safety officers after it stopped.