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Two people died after a vehicle exploded at a US-Canada border crossing at Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, on Wednesday 22 November.. The car was attempting to enter Canada from the United States ...
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 ...
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.
Kirk Raymond Jones (1962 or 1963 – c. April 19, 2017) was an American who became the first person to survive going over Horseshoe Falls, the largest waterfall of Niagara Falls, without safety equipment, in 2003. He then went over Niagara Falls again in 2017 with a plastic ball and died.
In 2023, another mother jumped with her 5-year-old son into the Niagara Gorge, just down river from the falls. That mother died in the fall, but rescuers were able to save the boy.
Despite having been stopped by Niagara Parks police two days earlier, [2] on August 18, 1985, at 8:30 AM, Trotter's 11-man crew launched his barrel into the Niagara River rapids, a quarter-mile from the brink of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. Trotter went over the Falls and survived with minor scrapes.
An eastbound Via Rail train 92 travelling from Niagara Falls to Toronto derailed east of Aldershot station. 2013 Wanup Train derailment: 2 June 2013: Wanup, Ontario: 0: 0: A rail bridge crossing the Wanapitei River near the community of Wanup collapsed, causing a train derailment and spilling a number of cars carrying containers into the river ...
Bobby Leach and his barrel after his trip over Niagara Falls, 1911. Bobby Leach's grave, Hillsborough Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand. Bobby Leach (born Lancaster, England; 1858 – April 26, 1926) was the second person and first man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, accomplishing the feat on July 25, 1911 — while Annie Taylor did it on October 24, 1901.