On Monday, a car transporting Vice President Kamala Harris to the White House slammed onto the curb of a tunnel close to the Foggy Bottom district of Washington.
Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokeswoman, later confirmed the event after it was initially published by The Washington Post and described it in an email to HuffPost.
Guglielmi reported that a motorcade car "had a small overcorrection and impacted a kerb during a protective manoeuvre on Monday."
The event did not result in any injuries, and Harris was transferred to another vehicle and made it to her workplace without problem.
According to the vice president's spokesperson Kirsten Allen, "The Vice President received no injuries and appreciates the prompt reaction by her USSS detail to get her to the White House safely."
There were no public engagements scheduled for the vice president on Monday.
Given that the Secret Service undergoes intensive training for its drivers of the president and the vice president, the occurrence allegedly startled Harris as well as Secret Service officials.
Another issue that surfaced during the incident was that agents did not properly report it, invoking a "mechanical breakdown" to excuse the delay in the motorcade's arrival time in a message system intended to warn agency executives, according to the Post.
Guglielmi claimed that agents later informed management about the incident.
According to Guglielmi, who spoke to HuffPost, "early radio communication showed this was a technical problem and it was relayed to agency leadership by employees assisting the motorcade movement." Leadership was verbally updated with further vital information that the car had impacted a curb after the protective maneuver was finished.
In an interview with NBC News, Guglielmi claimed that the agents handled the situation "just as they should."
Guglielmi stated, "We are proud of the detail.
The Secret Service is being criminally investigated by the inspector of the Homeland Security Department because to missing messages between officers on January 6. 24 agents who participated in the reaction to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 had their phones taken by the department's inspector general.
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