Truck carrying tank after Army's 250th birthday parade kills pedestrian in DC

[shelshaw]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/17/army-tank-kills-dc-pedestrian-birthday-parade/84246151007/

A truck carrying one of the Army M1 Abrams tanks that participated in President Donald Trump's parade in honor of the service's 250th birthday struck and killed a woman in Washington.

The accident occurred on the evening of June 16 – two days after the parade – on New York Avenue while a contract truck driver was hauling the tank from the West Potomac Park staging area to a railyard in Jessup, Maryland, according to an internal Army document obtained by USA TODAY. The truck was part of a larger convoy of vehicles.

[UpInArms]

1. Another death on TFG's record

So sorry for the woman and her loved ones

[Deep State Witch]

2. NOthing about this on DC News

I just finished watching the DC news at 6. There was nothing about this.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. The nature of the truck is not mentioned.

Police investigate pedestrian crash that left woman dead in northeast DC

Jessica James
Tue, June 17th 2025 at 7:20 AM

WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — A woman died after being hit by a vehicle in northeast D.C. on Monday night, according to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

Officers responded to the intersection of Bladensburg Road and New York Avenue at 9:34 p.m. for an accident involving a pedestrian. They found a woman who was unconscious and not breathing.

MPD said she had life-threatening injuries when D.C. Fire and EMS arrived. First responders attempted life-saving efforts but the woman died.

MPD's Major Crash Unit is investigating.

[Emile]

9. Strange, it's like Trump ordered a media blackout.

[hlthe2b]

3. OMG. Unbelievably horrific and preventable in every way (beginning with not having the damned tanks there to begin with

[Emile]

5. Seriously, why isn't this all over the national news stations?

[surfered]

6. President Biden never killed anyone with a birthday parade

[elleng]

7. ;-(

[Ping Tung]

8. It's just collateral damage in the coming war. Was the tank wounded?