Niagara Falls, N.Y. (WBEN) - The Niagara Falls Police Department continues the investigation into the Rainbow Bridge crash that occurred on the day before Thanksgiving.
The NFPD's crash reconstruction unit has recovered a severely damaged data recorder or "black box" coming from the crashed, exploded Bentley of Kurt Villani and wife, Monica Villani and are looking to see if they can obtain any information from it.
However, in order for the NFPD to obtain any information of the black box, the NFPD will have to get authorization from Bentley manufacturers to obtain any data that could be on the recorder.
"Our accident unit is in conversation with the District Attorney's office relative to obtaining the black box subpoena," said Mayor Rob Restaino on Tuesday morning on WBEN.
"What I think can be drawn from the data recorder, it'll be things such as speed, braking, fuel, a number of technical instrument recordings, that will assist in putting together a puzzle."
The mayor mentions it is important to ensure that this case gets proper closure.
"We want to be able to say that we have concluded our accident reconstruction, our exit investigation, and we have a determination. That helps us in terms of closing out this investigation from our department perspective, but equally important, it also allows the family and the public to have a sense of just what happened there. Conspiracy theorists were running wild with all kinds of theories of what happened there, none of which were accurate. And now in this instance, too, we'll be able to determine it was it was it equipment or if there was something else involved."
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