Driver in custody after crashing into White Home gates
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A driver was in custody Monday after crashing a automobile into an exterior gate of the White House advanced, a spokesman for the Secret Service wrote on X.
“Shortly earlier than 6p.m., a automobile collided with an exterior gate on the White Home advanced,” Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesman wrote on X. “The driving force has been taken into custody & we’re investigating the trigger & method of the collision.”
Guglielmi warned of attainable visitors implications on the intersection of fifteenth Road and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, which is the jap facet of the White Home advanced close to the Treasury Constructing.
In a subsequent tweet after 7:30 p.m., Guglielmi stated the automobile had been cleared from the scene and that visitors closures can be lifted for the realm. He added that the driving force stays in custody because the investigation continues.
The White Home fence has been upgraded lately, together with making it taller. In 2021, the Nationwide Park Service constructed a 13-foot fence with wider, stronger posts to attempt to deter jumpers from climbing over it.
