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Trump Says Accidents Happen in Diplomat Wife Accident


President Donald Trump speaks during an event on "transparency in Federal guidance and enforcement" in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Oct. 9, 2019, in Washington.
President Donald Trump speaks during an event on "transparency in Federal guidance and enforcement" in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Oct. 9, 2019, in Washington.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's planning to get involved in the case of an American diplomat's wife who left the U.K. after she was involved in a fatal wrong-way crash.

Trump on Wednesday called what happened "a terrible accident" and said his administration would seek to speak with the driver ``and see what we can come up with.''

British police say the 42-year-old woman is a suspect in an Aug. 27 collision between a car and a motorcycle near RAF Croughton, a British military base in England used by the U.S. Air Force. The 19-year-old motorcyclist, Harry Dunn, was killed.

Trump says: "The woman was driving on the wrong side of the road. And that can happen."

The woman's name hasn't been officially released.

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