Police: Unlicensed driver in crash with Secret Service

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Uniformed Secret Service officers walk along the lawn on the North side of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014.
Uniformed Secret Service officers walk along the lawn on the North side of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014.
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WAKEFIELD, NH -- Police say an unlicensed driver trying to pass a car on a snowy road in New Hampshire died after colliding head-on with a car carrying four Secret Service agents on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's protective detail.

The accident happened about 7 p.m. Tuesday in Wakefield, near the Maine state line.

Police say the agents were heading south on Route 16, when a northbound car with three people crossed a double yellow solid line and hit them.

Killed was 45-year-old Bruce Danforth. Wakefield Police Chief Kenneth Fifield says Danforth didn't have a valid license.

A Secret Service spokeswoman says the agents sustained serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. Two passengers in Danforth's car were taken to hospitals; their conditions weren't immediately known.

Clinton says she was saddened to hear of the crash.