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A man was struck and killed Wednesday morning after being hit in Temple Hills by two Secret Service vehicles returning from a trip with the vice president.

The crash happened shortly before 2:30 a.m. near the intersection of Suitland Parkway and Naylor Road, U.S. Park Police said. The man, whose identity has not been released, was walking along the highway when he was struck by two vehicles, a sedan and a sport utility vehicle traveling in the westbound lane, said Sgt. David Schlosser, a Park Police spokesman.

The vehicles had just left Joint Base Andrews and were traveling to a Secret Service garage in Washington, D.C., said Ed Donovan, a spokesman for Secret Service.

Donovan said the vehicles had been used to transport Vice President Joe Biden after he returned from a trip in Tacoma, Wash.

Biden was not in either vehicle at the time. Only two drivers were inside the cars at the time of the crash, Donovan said, adding they are not agents for Secret Service.

"The vehicles were operated by Secret Service personnel," he said. "Our employees and vehicles stayed at the scene until Park Police finished the investigation."

The crash is being investigated by Park Police and the Secret Service. A cause has not yet been determined.

E-mail Joshua Garner at jgarner@gazette.net.