In August 2019 Harry Dunn, a local teenager, was killed in a collision with a vehicle driven on the wrong side of the road by Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a US government employee working at the United States Air Force listening station at the base. After initially co-operating with police, Sacoolas left the country in haste asserting diplomatic immunity. The family of the victim travelled to the United States to pursue the matter, and were invited to the White House where the President, Donald Trump, attempted unsuccessfully to surprise them into a meeting with Sacoolas. In December 2019 the Crown Prosecution Service announced that Sacoolas would be charged with causing death by dangerous driving, and the Home Office requested her extradition; in January 2020 it became clear that there had been many similar incidents in the vicinity of RAF Croughton, and friends of the victim gathered to demonstrate outside the base, while on 24 January the USA refused extradition.