{"id":105447,"date":"2024-05-06T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/vehicle-crashes-into-white-house-gate-killing-driver-secret-service-says-no-threat\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T00:01:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T00:01:33","slug":"vehicle-crashes-into-white-house-gate-killing-driver-secret-service-says-no-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/vehicle-crashes-into-white-house-gate-killing-driver-secret-service-says-no-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle crashes into White House gate, killing driver; Secret Service says &#8216;no threat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-05\/GettyImages_WhiteHouse_050524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Celal Gunes\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; A vehicle traveling &#8220;at a high rate of speed&#8221; crashed into a gate at the White House complex late Saturday, killing the driver, a U.S. Secret Service spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>There was &#8220;no threat&#8221; to the White House after the vehicle crashed into a barricade just before 10:30 p.m., officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Security protocols were implemented as officers cleared the vehicle and attempted to render aid to the driver who was discovered deceased,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Metropolitan Police will investigate the crash alongside the Secret Service.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this time, the incident is being investigated only as a traffic crash by MPD&#8217;s Major Crash Investigations Unit,&#8221; police officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celal Gunes\/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; A vehicle traveling &#8220;at a high rate of speed&#8221; crashed into a gate at the White House complex late Saturday, killing the driver, a U.S. Secret Service spokesperson said. There was &#8220;no threat&#8221; to the White House after the vehicle crashed into a<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/vehicle-crashes-into-white-house-gate-killing-driver-secret-service-says-no-threat\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}