U.K. leader says Biden "sympathetic," "engaged" to end dispute over U.S. woman wanted in fatal car crash

London — Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that he and President Biden are "working together" to end a major diplomatic dispute over whether American Anne Sacoolas should face trial in Britain over the death of Harry Dunn. Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity shortly after the 19-year-old was killed when her car hit him as he drove his motorcycle near a military base used by the U.S. in England.

Sacoolas, 43, admitted to police that she caused the crash outside the RAF Croughton base in Northamptonshire on August 27, 2019. The mother-of-three, whose husband Jonathan Sacoolas worked in an intelligence capacity at the base, which houses U.S. personnel, left the country a few weeks later after the U.S. asserted that she was entitled to diplomatic immunity. Speaking at the G7 in Cornwall, Johnson said the president was "extremely sympathetic" and "actively engaged" in the case.