some Vans at the back of a motorcade carrying Tim Walls crashed on the highway while heading from the airport to a campaign stop in Milwaukee on Monday but the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee was unhe hurt Joe Biden called from Air Force 1 and spoke to walls a short time later as the president was traveling to a separate campaign stop in Pittsburgh with kamla Harris the vice president was campaigning in Detroit before heading to the Joint event later in the day with Biden and her campaign said that she also spoke with her running mate by phone after the crash the Harris campaign said the crash involved Vehicles near the rear of the motorcade walls who is also the governor of Minnesota was riding closer to the front images posted on social media showed large passenger vans with crumpled front and back ends after the Collision which was said to have occurred on Interstate 794 upon arriving at his event wall spoke briefly about the crash saying some of my staff and members of the press that were traveling up with us were involved in a traffic accident on the way here today we've spoken with the staff I'm relieved to say that with a few minor injuries everybody's going to be okay wall said President Biden and vice president Harris called to check in and we certainly appreciate their concern and I want to express my sincere thanks to the US Secret Service and all the local First Responders for their quick reaction it wasn't immediately clear what caused the crash which occurred shortly before 1: p.m. local time a member of the traveling pool staff who was in a van carrying reporters had an injured arm and was treated by Medics according to a pool report from a reporter traveling in wal's motorcade who wrote wrote that passengers were violently thrown forward as our van slammed into the one in front of us and was hit from behind walls and his motorcade stopped at the hospital a few hours after the crash so he could check on staff members who were involved the van carrying the reporters remained pulled over on the side of the road for several minutes afterward some reporters had scrapes and bruises and one had a bloody nose another feared having suffered a concussion and was initially looking to be taken to urgent care but eventually climbed aboard a new van to accompany the rest of the press to the event all who wanted to be checked out by paramedics were assessed according to the pool report the crash occurred after walls and his wife Gwen were greeted at the airport by Gwen Moore the democratic congresswoman of Wisconsin the trio embraced chatted and posted for a photo before the motorcade began heading to the event Monday's campaign stops marking Labor Day where wal's first aboard the Harris walls campaign Charter aircraft it Bears decals of an American flag the words Harris walls and a new way forward