‘WELL OVER’

Speeding Fetterman ‘at Fault’ for Maryland Car Accident: Police Report

A police report has provided further insight into the car accident that landed the Pennsylvania senator in hospital.

A police report detailing a car accident involving Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and his wife, Gisele, in Maryland on Sunday says the junior senator was speeding and “at fault” over the incident. The report, obtained and published by USA Today, says Fetterman was driving a Chevrolet Traverse around 7:45 a.m. when he passed a witness on the I-70 “at a high rate of speed, well over the posted speed limit,” before he rear-ended a Chevrolet Impala. The speed limit, the report says, was 70 miles per hour. The accident landed the couple–along with another driver, identified by USA Today as a 62-year-old woman from Pennsylvania–in hospital in West Virginia on Sunday. Fetterman was treated for a bruised shoulder and he and his wife were discharged later that day. The other driver was listed on the report with a “suspected minor injury.” Neither Fetterman nor the other driver were tested for alcohol or substance use and no citations were given, either, the report said. Fetterman posted a video on X after accident, thanking supporters for their well wishes while adding the accident took place on the couple’s wedding anniversay. “Not great for your wedding anniversary but we’re both great, and thank you for all of you that you care,” Fetterman said.

Both vehicles were towed from the site of the accident and Fetterman, his wife Gisele Fetterman, and the driver of the other car, a 62-year-old woman from Pennsylvania, were taken to War Memorial Hospital in West Virginia in ambulances.

USA TODAY attempted to contact the witness and other driver involved in the accident but were unable to reach them Wednesday. The names of the woman hit by Fetterman and the witness were included in the public police record but USA TODAY is not publishing them to protect personal privacy.