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About 6,000 vehicles cross the Rainbow Bridge each day, according to the U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s National Bridge Inventory. The short, steel bridge offers scenic views of Niagara ...
From inside Niagara Falls State Park, Melissa Raffalow said she saw “a huge plume of black smoke” rise up over the border crossing, roughly 50 yards (45 meters) away from the popular tourist ...
Watch a live view from the scene of an explosion at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing between the United States and Canada near Niagara Falls on Wednesday, 22 November. Two people have died, law ...
Saturday 25 November 2023 22:00, Mike Bedigan. ICYMI: What we know about the Rainbow Bridge crash. Two people, Kurt P Villani and Monica Villani, died after a vehicle exploded at a US-Canadaborder ...
Thousands of people have gone over Niagara Falls, either intentionally (as stunts or suicide attempts) or accidentally. The first recorded person to survive going over the falls was school teacher Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901 successfully completed the stunt inside an oak barrel. In the following 124 years, thousands of people have been ...
A sudden wind storm on Lake Erie sent a massive amount of ice over the falls, resulting in nearly 100 ft (30 m) of ice pushing against the bridge. [4] Final collapse occurred at 4:20 pm, before thousands of onlookers who had come to watch the bridge go. The structure collapsed in one piece into the river.
Two people in the car were killed in the fiery incident on the Rainbow Bridge, which leads into and out of Canada at Niagara Falls, that occurred minutes before 11:30 a.m., officials said.
The Rainbow Bridge was built near the site of the earlier Honeymoon Bridge, which collapsed in 1938 due to an ice jam in the Niagara Gorge. Architect Richard (Su Min) Lee designed the bridge; a design also used for the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge , approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) downriver.