So, it appears the Secret Service hit a curb in a tunnel and destroyed a tire. Oh, and the vice president was in the car.

VEEP IMPACT: SUV carrying Harris crashes; Secret Service initially blames ‘mechanical failure’
washingtonexaminer.com | 10/5/2022 | Brady Knox

Vice President Kamala Harris was involved in a one-car crash on a closed roadway in Washington, D.C., which the Secret Service initially misreported as a “mechanical failure,” according to a report.

The Monday morning crash has sent shock waves through the Secret Service, according to insiders speaking with the Washington Post. While the vice president wasn’t injured, the nature of the accident has raised the question of how such a careless incident was able to occur within the prestigious agency.

The SUV carrying Harris hit a curb of a tunnel with such force that the tire had to be replaced. The vice president was moved to another vehicle in the motorcade to reach the White House.

The inaccuracy of the initial report of the accident, an electronic alert to leadership attributing it to a “mechanical failure” rather than the Secret Service agent driving the SUV hitting a curb, caused Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle, who has been on the job for about a month, to be disturbed but was relieved after receiving a fuller account later in the day, a source told the news outlet.

Heh. Perhaps a punning use of the word “relieved.”

And “Cheatle.”