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Five dead, including two kids, and dozens injured in horrific highway bus crash 10%
By Stephen M. Lepore0%
5/29/2026, 8:37:14 PM
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A 13-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy are among the five dead following a fiery bus crash on a Virginia highway.
They were killed after a bus crashed into other traffic slowing for a work zone on Interstate 95 early Friday.
Four of the fatalities were from within one car which burst into flames during the crash.
Police are now looking into charges against bus driver Jing S Dong, 48, of Staten Island, New York.
The crash happened at about 2.35am on southbound I-95 in Stafford County, near Quantico.
State police said the victims were a 45-year-old male, a 44-year-old female, a 13-year-old female and a seven-year-old male, all from Greenfield, Massachusetts.
The fifth victim, a 25-year-old female from Worcester, Massachusetts, was in an SUV that was struck by the bus.
All five of the people who died were in vehicles hit by the bus and 44 people were taken to hospitals, including three in critical condition, police said.
"The preliminary investigation indicates that traffic was slowing southbound for an upcoming work zone," state police said in a news release.
"A bus failed to slow for traffic and struck six vehicles."
Police said there were "approximately" 34 passengers on the bus.
"We've got patients in multiple hospitals.
We've got the driver at a hospital here," said Peyton Vogel, a Federal Transit Administration spokesperson who was on the scene.
"I've got to say, this is one of the most tragic things I've ever seen.
Absolutely tragic."
The driver was an American citizen who emigrated from China but spoke no English.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was critical of the licensing process which enabled him to get behind the wheel.
"He received his commercial drivers license from New York State in 2024.
Unacceptable," Duffy said on X.
"If you can't be properly trained, read our road signs, or communicate with law enforcement, you have no business driving a bus."
Mary Washington Healthcare said it received 19 patients from the crash.
It posted online that seven of the patients were taken to its trauma center in Fredericksburg, where four were being discharged and three remained in treatment - one in serious condition and two in critical condition.
Twelve were taken to its hospital in Stafford, where they were later discharged in good condition.
The National Transportation Safety Board posted online that it was sending a "go-team" to conduct a safety investigation into the crash and that it would have a spokesperson at the scene.
The southbound lanes had reopened by noon, but traffic was still backed up for a couple of miles, according to a state transportation advisory.
The bus was operated by E&P Travel Inc, based in Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
A compliance snapshot from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration showed only one injury accident involving the company's vehicles in the previous two years and listed its safety rating as "satisfactory."
The company was incorporated Nov 24, 2023, by Shuo Liu, according to records from the North Carolina Secretary of State's office.
Liu is also listed as the registered agent.
The FMCSA site said the company operated four vehicles and had 11 drivers.
While it is too soon to say what caused Friday's crash, federal authorities have been grappling with interstate passenger bus safety issues for decades.
Following a series of passenger bus crashes in 2008 that killed 41 people, the US Department of Transportation published a Motorcoach Safety Action Plan.
The NTSB investigated 16 fatal motorcoach crashes between June 1998 and January 2008, finding that driver-related problems such as fatigue, medical condition and inattention accounted for 56 percent of the accidents.
The agency said driver-related problems were responsible for 60 percent of the fatalities in those crashes.
Among the actions recommended were creation of a pre-employment driver history screening program and a national drug- and alcohol-testing database "to enable motorcoach operators to determine if drivers have a history of violating DOT alcohol or drug rules."
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