Kurt & Monica Villani have been identified as the two people who were killed in the Rainbow Bridge crash at the U.S.-Canada border

Friends say the couple had been having problems with the gas pedal on the car just weeks before the fatal crash.

Villani and his wife lived in Grand Island, New York just 10 miles from where the crash happened.

Bentley has not yet commented on the crash but family friends of Villani say he was having a problem with the accelerator.

The Villani family owned Gui's Lumber and had a tradition of handing out turkeys on Thanksgiving and were featured on the news in 2014 for handing out 250 turkeys.

NEW: Kurt & Monica Villani have been identified as the two people who were killed in the Rainbow Bridge crash at the U.S.-Canada border.

The couple was allegedly driving a $300k Bentley on their way to a KISS concert.

Friends say the couple had been having problems with the gas… pic.twitter.com/nMrdSvPNuG

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg)November 24, 2023