Feb, 2010: The accident involving Vice President Biden’s motorcade in Vancouver Sunday is the latest in a long line of motorcade collisions. At least 10 collisions involving the motorcades of presidents, vice presidents and presidential candidates have been recorded over the past decade:
Nov. 18, 2009: A police car driving ahead of Vice President Biden’s motorcade collides with another vehicle in Manhattan. Biden was on his way to appear on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.”
Nov. 15, 2009: A sheriff’s deputy whose car was parked by police vehicles blocking an intersection in Albuquerque is injured after a woman drives around the blockade and hits the car. She was working with the motorcade for Vice President Biden, who had been at a campaign fundraiser for two New Mexico Democrats.
Nov. 11, 2009: Two armored U.S. Secret Service vehicles, including a limo sometimes used by Vice President Biden, strike and kill a man hours before dawn. The man was crossing a parkway in Temple Hills, Md., outside Washington, D.C. Biden was not in either of the vehicles.
February 2008: Sr. Cpl. Victor Lozada Tirado, a Dallas motorcycle officer, dies while escorting Hillary Clinton’s motorcade. The motorcycle hit a guard rail.
August 2007: Officer Germaine Casey, a New Mexico motorcycle police officer, is killed in the motorcade of President Bush while trying to pass in front of the president’s limousine.
March 2007: A vehicle in President Bush’s motorcade collides with a car on the way from the White House to Camp David. No one was injured.
November 2006: A Honolulu police officer dies after his motorcycle crashes while escorting President Bush during a visit to Hawaii.
February 2006: A police officer escorting President Bush’s motorcade is injured after losing control of his motorcycle on a New Mexico highway.
December 2005: The ambulance trailing President Bush’s motorcade on the way back from Camp David crashes into a support vehicle a few blocks from the White House.
August 2000: Two police officers escorting President Clinton’s motorcade in Detroit sustain injuries after their motorcycles collide.
