A vehicle speeding toward a U.S.-Canada bridge from the American side crashed and exploded at a checkpoint in Niagara Falls on Wednesday, killing two people and prompting the closing of border crossings in the area, authorities said. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said there was “no indication of a terrorist attack.”
The two deceased people were in the vehicle, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official was not authorized to discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Aaron Ferguson, a spokesperson for the city of Niagara Falls, New York, said the vehicle was traveling at high speed from that city and crashed into the border station.
Jim Diodati, the mayor of Niagara Falls, Ontario, told The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that what happened appeared to be “an isolated incident.”
The U.S. FBI’s field office in Buffalo and other agencies were investigating the blast.
Photos and video taken by bystanders and posted on social media showed thick smoke, flames on the pavement and a security booth that had been singed. Videos showed that the fire was in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection area just east of the main vehicle checkpoint. The agency had no immediate comment.
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Both jabbed I presume
It looks like it just hit the curb, normally it takes a good long ramp to get that much distance in the air.
Whoa !
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a Bentley Continental Flying Spur! At least they both went out in style.
right wing media and politicians on the right were calling this couple illegal immigrant terrorists after, they were a couple who owned a business in new york driving a 200k bentley and due to either alcohol or a medical emergency turned the car into a 200k missile
Yeah screw the terror conspiracy, that some twilight zone X-files $#$% right there. That car stayed in the air far too long..
Lol Dukes of Hazzard
They have to do something about those EZ Pass lanes.
Someone should edit this, pause the car midflight, and dub in the “Dukes of Hazzard” announcer guy saying something witty. Perhaps be could call it an “international flight”…
There will never be an answer to what happened here as both people are dead and the car was destroyed by fire, potentially leaving no intact data from the cars computers or engine managment system. Lucky for Bentley if there was a car malfunction. Investigators should be able to calculate the speed of the car from the video. I'd like to know what it was they hit that so dramatically launched them into the air. You can see a lot of soil flying under that car in the first half of it's flight, so they probably hit some sort of berm that rmped them into the air.
That's to much automobile for somebody. Why don't folks ever think to take the car out of gear?
driving while vaxxed.
Looks like baloney to me 😕
electric car with rogue AI, exploding battery
Looks like passenger front door was open
That Canadian goose is cooked….😅
By the way
How do cars
Fly????
😮DAMN! It's like something out of an action flick. I never thought something so over-the-top was possible but… there ya go.
Condolences to that couple's family. I read up on this. It's definitely NOT a terrorist attack. It's likely a lawsuit against Bentley in the making.
This was a couple that owned a chain of lumber businesses all over western New York, not the sort of people to commit terrorism.
The car likely had an acceleration issue. That make and model was recently recalled up to 2021. The car was a 2022 but it looks like the recall needs to be expanded if the Black Box (cars have them, now) shows a mechanical failure.
So, this is either…
* Car malfunction.
* Health emergency from driver, causing them to "floor it".
* The driver decided to drive like a maniac in a weird Gen X midlife crisis pique.
…and right before Thanksgiving. It's like the "FINAL DESTINATION" version of The Grim Reaper was on Psychopomp Duty, that day. Geez!
Was that a bmw or a bently?
I predict that Bentley will retire the name “Flying Spur” very shortly!!
According to the maga babies President Biden was driving that car.
VROOOM!
Can anyone tell me what car model it is?
Wut !
Dayom…they said the couple were driving a Bentley..what a brutal crash.
Same trajectory E.T. rode his bike……very suspicious
Indians being drunk as usual
What did it hit to cause it to fly?
I know first hand this is possible. I was a passenger in a car t 0:41 hat went airborne, very similar conditions as this. Thankfully we all survived. By standers couldn't believe what they saw. Speed is a huge factor. Very sad😢
Need the Dukes of Hazzard theme with this vid. lol
It’s obvious what happened.
The men in black hyperdrive failed and the self destruction sequence activated.
Off that footage alone we can tell that was an attack. People in nys drive crazy, but not take flight crazy.
Just 'em good old boys
Never meanin' no harm
Beats all you never saw
Been in trouble with the law since the day they was born.
Bro, I grew up watching the Dukes of Hazard. And that was definitely Bo or Luke Duke driving that car. No average driver could get that height on a jump.
I feel sorry for this couple and their surviving kids, especially how MAGA tried to capitalize on this tragedy
Accident reconstruction math will be interesting. Speed 125 – 150???? Cue the Bentley lawsuits ………
The Bently 'Flying Spur'.
That was one h.ll of a ride or flight. Possible medical event.
Tragic that a couple lost control of their car and perished. Medical episode? Faulty accelerator on the Bentley? Condolences to their family and friends.
“Life is as extreme as you wanna make it woohoo”
Bentley failed crash test.
High performance car meets low performance driver