{"id":14707,"date":"2025-10-22T08:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/driver-crashes-car-into-white-house-security-gate\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T08:01:55","slug":"driver-crashes-car-into-white-house-security-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/driver-crashes-car-into-white-house-security-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver crashes car into White House security gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A person drove a vehicle into a gate outside the White House on Tuesday night, according to the Secret Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt approximately 10:37 p.m., an individual drove a vehicle into the Secret Service vehicle gate located at 17th &amp; E St, NW,\u201d the Secret Service <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SecretSvcSpox\/status\/1980843387898003536\" target=\"_blank\"><u>said on X.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The law enforcement agency, which is responsible for protecting the president, added the driver was \u201carrested &amp; the vehicle was assessed and deemed safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investigation into the cause of this collision is ongoing,\u201d the Secret Service said, without giving further details about the person arrested, the type of vehicle or a possible motive.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump was inside the White House at the time of the incident, the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/20251022041750\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/21\/us\/white-house-car-crash.html#selection-653.76-653.178\" target=\"_blank\"><u>reported<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A person drove a vehicle into a gate outside the White House on Tuesday night, according to the Secret Service. \u201cAt approximately 10:37 p.m., an individual drove a vehicle into the Secret Service vehicle gate located at 17th &amp; E St, NW,\u201d the Secret Service said on X. The law enforcement agency, which is responsible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}