Thursday, US Customs and Border Protection said.
Three of the bridges reopened later Wednesday, but Rainbow Bridge remained closed overnight. The explosion prompted a temporary shutdown of all four bridges between Canada and the US near Niagara Falls on one of the busiest travel days of the year. The crash occurred sometime after the couple left the casino, law enforcement sources said. Investigators believe the man who died had plans to attend a KISS concert in Canada, but when it was canceled, he went to a casino in the US instead. Kathy Hochul said at a news conference Wednesday evening. “I want to be very, very clear to Americans and New Yorkers: At this time there is no indication of a terrorist attack,” New York Gov. The case was turned over to local police as a traffic investigation. Sources: Deadly crash at US-Canadian border bridge involved man and wife in a Bentley, investigators believeĬNN previously reported investigators believed a man was travelling with his wife in a 2022 Bentley at a high rate of speed when the vehicle hit a curb, then a guardrail that sent the vehicle airborne into the secondary screening area of Rainbow Bridge, law enforcement sources told CNN.ĭespite initial concerns of a terror attack, the FBI has not found any connection to terrorism, and no explosives were found at the scene, the agency’s Buffalo field office announced Wednesday night.
