Several cars at the back of a motorcade carrying US Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz have crashed while heading from the airport to a campaign stop in Milwaukee but Walz was unhurt.
President Joe Biden called and spoke to Walz a short time later, as the president was travelling to a separate campaign stop in Pittsburgh with Vice President Kamala Harris.
Harris’ campaign said that she also spoke with her running mate by phone after the crash and that he was not injured.
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The Harris campaign said the crash involved cars near the rear of the motorcade.
Walz, who is also the governor of Minnesota, was riding closer to the front.
It was not immediately clear what caused the crash, which occurred shortly before 1pm and caused some minor injuries.
The White House said that Harris was briefed on the collision and spoke with Walz to check on him and the staff.
She is expected to get updates throughout the day.
A member of the travelling pool staff, who was in a van carrying reporters, was injured and being treated by medics, according to a pool report from a reporter in Walz’s motorcade, who wrote that passengers were “violently thrown forward, as our van slammed into the one in front of us and was hit from behind”.
The van carrying the reporters remained pulled over on the side of the road for several minutes afterward.
Some reporters had scrapes and bruises and one had a bloody nose.
Another feared having suffered a concussion and was initially looking to be taken to urgent care – but eventually climbed aboard a new van to accompany the rest of the press to the event.
