New York shuts bridge after truck found abandoned
From Reuters:Interesting that the article does not say whether or not there was anything wrong with the truck.NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City's Triborough Bridge was shut down on Wednesday night after police said a truck, smelling of gas, was found abandoned on the busy thoroughfare.
New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said a worker on the bridge that connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx found the vehicle abandoned by its driver and apparently smelling of gas.
The New York police bomb squad was investigating the vehicle, law enforcement sources said.
Browne said the vehicle was a U-Haul rental truck with Arizona license plates. It was left on a Manhattan-bound service road leading from the Bronx, he said. Fire officials were responding.
The closure of the span, also known as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, came days after a failed bomb attack on New York's Times Square that has heightened security concerns in America's most populous city.
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the Times Square plot was the 11th thwarted attack on New York City since hijacked airliners destroyed the World Trade Center's twin towers on September 11, 2001, killing more than 2,600 people.
From ABC News:
Authorities say a bomb squad has been called in after a U-Haul truck with an Arizona license plate was abandoned near a Manhattan bridge toll booth Wednesday night.
According to CNN, New York's Robert F. Kennedy Bridge has been shut down as authorities investigate.
CNN reports a witness saw the driver run from the truck which was abandoned near a Manhattan toll booth.
2 comments:
U-haul has a poor record of vehicle maintenance. (First hand experience with that). When driving, I make sure I stay clear of U-haul trailers and trucks. They are NOT properly maintained.
If the truck was a ligit break down and not a threat. Who will pay for the costs of emergency services?
Simple car thief behind U-Haul truck that caused bomb scare on Robert F. Kennedy Bridge: cops
The suspicious truck abandoned on the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge appears to have been stolen by a conventional car thief -- not a terrorist, police said Thursday.
The incident Wednesday night shut down the bridge in all directions for about three hours, and sparked fears of another potential car bomb.
The vehicle -- a U-Haul truck with Arizona license plates -- was abandoned about 100 yards from a toll plaza on the Bronx side at 9:40 p.m.
The driver fled on foot, carrying a white bag in his hand and running toward Queens. A responding officer with the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority reported smelling gas.
The NYPD's Bomb Squad responded, and officers X-rayed the vehicle and cut a hole in its side. There were no devices or explosives inside and there was no gas leak.
Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, the NYPD's top spokesman, said Thursday that investigators are fairly certain the driver, who is still being sought, is not a terrorist or someone doing a dry run in advance of an act of terror.
"We think, preliminarily, that it's a conventional perp," he said.
The truck was stolen from a U-Haul lot on East 138th St., he said
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WTH is a conventional perp? . . .who is still being sought?. . .and has yet to be identified, described by u-haul rental agent, witnesses on bridge?
Good going NY. CYA. Prevent the general public from 'saying something' when they 'see something' if it just might identify the, uh, what are we calling it today?. . .oh yeah, 'conventional perp'.
And about that gas odor. No leak. No cargo. Something stinks here and it's not the truck - it's the investigative reports.
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