Police report reveals: Senator John Fetterman's car accident was his fault

WASHINGTON – Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) was speeding and “at fault” in a car crash that hospitalized him, his wife and another driver Sunday, according to a Maryland State Police report obtained by USA TODAY.

Fetterman, driving a Chevrolet Traverse, passed a witness on I-70 in northwest Maryland “at a high rate of speed, well above the posted speed limit” before rear-ending a Chevrolet Impala near the I-68 exit at about 7:45 a.m., the six-page report said. The posted speed limit was 70 mph.

Fetterman and the other driver were not tested for alcohol or drug use, the report said. No citations have been issued and the investigation is ongoing, Maryland State Police said in a statement to USA TODAY earlier this week. A spokesman for Fetterman did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

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

USA TODAY attempted to contact the witness and the other driver involved in the crash but was unable to reach them Wednesday. The names of the woman hit by Fetterman and the witness were in public police records, but USA TODAY is not releasing them for privacy reasons.

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Fetterman was treated for a shoulder contusion, according to a spokesman for the senator. The couple was released Sunday afternoon and posted a video to X thanking their supporters for their well-wishes. “Not the best way to spend our 16th wedding anniversary, but we are doing well and happy to be back home in Braddock with family,” he wrote.

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