Walz unharmed after some of the vehicles near the back of his motorcade crash in Milwaukee

WASHINGTON — Several cars behind a motorcade carrying Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz crashed Monday as they drove from the airport to a campaign site in Milwaukee. Walz was unharmed.

The crash occurred shortly before 1 p.m. local time. Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign said she spoke to Walz shortly after the crash and that he was not injured. The campaign said the crash involved cars toward the back of the motorcade, not closer to the front, where Walz, who is also the governor of Minnesota, was riding.

A member of Walz’s traveling crew, who was traveling in a van with reporters, was injured and was treated by medics, according to a poolside report from a reporter traveling in Walz’s motorcade. The poolside reporter said others in the van were shaken but appeared to be OK after being “thrown forward violently when our van collided with the van in front of us and was struck from behind.”

It was not immediately clear what caused the crash.

The crash occurred after Walz and his wife, Gwen, were greeted at the airport by Democratic Rep. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin. The trio hugged, chatted and posed for photos before the motorcade headed to the event.

Monday’s campaign stops to mark Labor Day, the first time Walz has boarded the Harris-Walz campaign charter plane. It bears decals of an American flag, the words Harris-Walz and “A New Way Forward.”