Under normal circumstances, Colvin Avenue between Amherst Street near Linden is pretty busy. With several businesses, Delaware Park, and one of Buffalo’s best private schools within a few blocks of each other, that section of Colvin Ave is pretty busy for traffic.
However, Monday, February 16, 2026, happens to be a President’s Day, a federal holiday that has closed schools across Western New York. With schools closed, there wasn’t much traffic on Colvin Avenue, but that didn’t stop a commercial truck for finding a way to crash into the CSX rail bridge that carries freight train traffic through the Buffalo beltway.
This bridge has a notorious history of being hit by trucks as many drivers misjudge the height of the bridge, even though it’s clearly marked…