Canada Border Crash Bentley Was Fish-Tailing at 100 MPH Before ... - The Messenger

Witnesses to Wednesday's fatal vehicle explosion on the U.S.-Canada border described the incident that reportedly killed a husband and wife on their way to a KISS concert as "a ball of fire" noting it they had "never seen anything like it" before.

Law enforcement analyst John Miller told CNN's The Situation Room the 56-year-old driver of the vehicle lived on a "very upscale island" in New York and may have suffered a "medical emergency." Authorities did not identify the names of the couple.

The pair were on the way to a KISS concert, which was later canceled by frontman Paul Stanley due to illness, according to the DailyMail.

Several witnesses recalled the moments leading up to the fatal crash noting that the $300,000 white Bentley was speeding toward Rainbow Bridge at "over 100 miles an hour," before "flying" in the air.

"We were walking up the road and we [saw] this car coming down towards the border," Mike Guenther told NBC News affiliate WGRZ.

"And he was flying, over 100 miles an hour. There was a car in front of him. He swerved out, went in front of the car, hit the fence [and] went flying up in the air." Guenther described the vehicle as a luxury sedan "fish-tailing" out of control.

He added: "I've never seen anything like this. It was just incredible. The fire was so high up in the air. My only concern was I hope nobody else got hurt. Because if anybody was in the way, I don't think they would have survived."

Another witness identified as Randie Wilson told NewsNation that the car flew high in the air before landing on the bridge. He noted that he had initially mistaken the vehicle for "an airplane" since the sight seemed like something from "a movie."

Other witnesses told reporters that while they did not see the crash, hey could see smoke from inside Niagara Falls State Park. 

"We saw fire and big, black smoke," Ivan Vitalii, a Ukrainian visiting Niagara Falls, told The Niagara Gazette.

Rainbow bridge vehicle explosion
Witnesses recall a vehicle explosion at Rainbow Bridge, bridge between US and Canada, on Nov. 22Sky News/Screenshot

While the cause of the incident remains unknown, New York Governor Kathy Hochul told reporters at a press conference Wednesday evening that preliminary investigations revealed "no sign of terrorist activity in this crash." 

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