The investigation is ongoing, Olsen said, but evidence gathered so far shows the tour bus was traveling “at a high rate of speed” when it struck multiple vehicles driving slow through a work zone. The result was “a chain reaction crash” involving at least eight vehicles.<\/p>\n
Dong was arrested on Saturday by the Virginia State Police and served with felony warrants in the hospital, Olsen said. <\/p>\n
Each count of involuntary manslaughter carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n
Five people died in the accident, including a 44-year-old female, a 13-year-old female, and a seven-year-old male. They were in a car that caught fire and had been on their way to a wedding in South Carolina, according to CBS, the BBC’s US news partner. <\/p>\n
They were identified to CBS News Boston as a family from Greenfield, Massachusetts – Dmitri Doncev, his wife, Ecaterina, their daughter Emily and son Mark.<\/p>\n
The fifth victim, 25-year-old Priscilla Mafalda, was in the Suburban that was initially struck by the bus.<\/p>\n
The bus was operated by E&P Travel and heading to North Carolina from New York.<\/p>\n
Roughly 44 people were sent to area hospitals after the collision, three with critical injuries, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The investigation is ongoing, Olsen said, but evidence gathered so far shows the tour bus was traveling “at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-613249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}