Police said they believed the car, a Volvo XC90, had been driven on the wrong side of the road from the base exit, which Sacoolas later admitted. The car was driven by Anne Sacoolas, a former US spy and the wife of a CIA operative working at the United States Air Force listening station at RAF Croughton. Harry Dunn, a 19-year-old resident of Charlton near Banbury, was riding his motorcycle on the B4031 road about 400 yards (370 m) from the exit of RAF Croughton on the evening of 27 August 2019, when he was struck by a car. She had not attended the sentencing in person on the advice of the US government despite the request of the judge. On 8 December 2022 she was sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, and disqualified from driving for 12 months. On 20 October 2022 she pleaded guilty to causing the death of Harry Dunn by careless driving. Sacoolas fled the UK soon after the incident and claimed diplomatic immunity with US support. The collision caused diplomatic tension between UK and US officials. Dunn was pronounced dead at the Major Trauma Centre of John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Sacoolas admitted that she had been driving the car on the wrong side of the road, and the police said that, based on CCTV footage, they believed that to be true. The car was driven by Anne Sacoolas, who is a former US spy and wife of CIA employee Jonathan Sacoolas, stationed at the time at USAF listening station RAF Croughton. He was riding his motorcycle near Croughton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom, near the exit to RAF Croughton, when a car travelling in the opposite direction and on the wrong side of the road collided with him. Harry Dunn was a 19-year-old British man who died following a road traffic collision on 27 August 2019. Fatal road traffic collision resulting in UK/US diplomatic controversyĬoordinates: 51★9′49″N 1☁1′45″W / 51.9969593°N 1.1959241°W / 51.9969593 -1.1959241 Death of Harry DunnĬausing death by careless driving (convicted)Ĭausing death by dangerous driving (acquitted)

Diplomatic immunity murder