“The FBI Buffalo Field Office is investigating a vehicle explosion at the Rainbow Bridge, a border crossing between the U.S. and Canada in Niagara Falls. The FBI is coordinating with our local, state and federal law enforcement partners in this investigation. As this situation is very fluid, that’s all we can say at this time.”
One eyewitness told local news station WGRZ that the car was speeding and swerving as it approached the border from the U.S. side, but shortly after it passed another car, it suddenly went careening toward the U.S. security checkpoint.d
Local news is giving conflicting reports that the car came from the Canada side.
You’d think this would be easy to determine with an overhead shot of the bridge.
Correction: IF That’s the Canada side, the road down to the border crossing into the US turns to the right. The speed limit is like 15 mph. The car went straight and seems to have hit the median and gone zoooooobooom.
I cannot think of any reason that any reasonable person could have accidentally done that.
A source with knowledge of the situation, who asked not to be identified by name, told The Buffalo News that a vehicle approached the American side of the bridge at a high rate of speed while traveling in the wrong lane – the one in which vehicles from Canada would be entering the United States. The speeding vehicle then hit an obstacle near a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspection booth.
““At this time, there is no indication of a terrorist attack,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul told reporters Wednesday evening. Her comments were echoed a short time later by federal law enforcement officials at a separate news conference.”
