Surveillance video captured the moment a speeding car suddenly went airborne at a checkpoint on the Rainbow Bridge between the United States and Canada on Wednesday, just seconds before it exploded into a massive fireball.
At least one CCTV camera managed to capture the vehicle rising several meters into the air after appearing to crash into what sources said was a barrier near the checkpoint area on the US side of the bridge between the Falls. Niagara, New York and Ontario, Canada, around 11:00:15 am
Moments later, a second video, believed to have been taken from a nearby U.S. Customs and Border Protection building, showed a ball of flames exploding.
The explosion sent debris flying from a nearby security booth as plumes of thick smoke engulfed the area, footage showed.
The vehicle was going 100 mph at the time, sources said, adding that the car was broken into several pieces after landing in a fireball.
“All of a sudden, it went up into the air and then it was a ball of fire about 30 or 40 feet high,” witness Mike Guenther told WGRZ-TV. “I’ve never seen anything like that.”
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The two occupants of the vehicle, whose identities have not been released, were found dead inside the vehicle, sources said.
A Border Patrol officer who was in the checkpoint booth at the time was injured in the explosion, treated at a hospital and released.
Investigators believe the car was headed from New York to Ontario when the driver, who was going at an “extraordinarily high speed,” crashed into a median on the U.S. side, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said at a conference. of press. .
The explosion caused the closure of the Rainbow Bridge border crossing, as well as three others in the area as a precaution.
“Based on what we know at this time, there are no signs of terrorist activity in this accident,” Hochul said.
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