PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A busy stretch of U.S. 441 west of Boca Raton has reopened Wednesday morning after it was shut down while authorities investigated a suspicious backpack on a bus.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said all lanes were closed for a 1/2-mile stretch between Sandalfoot Boulevard and Southwest 18th Street.
A sheriff's office spokeswoman said someone left a backpack on a Broward County transit bus and both PBSO's Bomb Squad and Arson Squad checked it out.
The agency tweeted around 10:30 a.m. that the backpack was deemed safe and all lanes of U.S. 441 have reopened.
SR7/441 is now open. It was closed due to a suspicious backpack left on a Broward County transit bus. PBSO Bomb & The Arson Squad arrived and deemed the back pack safe. All lanes are now open. https://t.co/TAgyBq8gjb
— PBSO (@PBCountySheriff) July 27, 2022
