{"id":249051,"date":"2026-05-30T23:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/249051\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T23:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T23:04:22","slug":"nyc-bus-driver-who-couldnt-speak-english-charged-in-horror-virginia-crash-that-killed-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/249051\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC bus driver who couldn&#8217;t speak English charged in horror Virginia crash that killed 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The non-English-speaking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/30\/us-news\/virginia-bus-crash-that-killed-5-involved-non-english-speaking-driver-who-got-license-in-ny-says-sean-duffy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Staten Island charter bus driver involved in Friday\u2019s catastrophic crash\u00a0on I-95 in Virginia<\/a> that killed five has been formally charged.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia State Police announced Saturday that 48-year-old Jing S. Dong faces two counts of involuntary manslaughter, with additional charges likely in the wreck \u2014 in which the victims included a family headed to a wedding \u2014\u00a0according to Virginia State Police.<\/p>\n<p>Bus driver of the fatal crash in Virginia that killed five \u2014 including a family of four \u2014 officially charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. Virginia State Police via AP<\/p>\n<p>The motorcoach came to rest in the medium of the highway after the crash. Virginia State Police via AP<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stated that Dong does not speak English, sparking an NTSB investigation into the driver\u2019s language proficiency.<\/p>\n<p>It is not immediately known if Dong is in custody or acquired legal counsel.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes as federal investigators reveal the E&amp;P Travel Inc. motorcoach was moving at a high rate of speed with little to no braking before slamming into a work-zone traffic backup near Quantico.<\/p>\n<p>The bus crash killed a family of four from Massachusetts en route to a wedding. Iuri Doncev\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems fairly clear that if there was any braking there wasn\u2019t much, because of the speed and severity of the collision,\u201d said Tom Chapman, an NTSB board member.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The victims have been identified as Priscilla Mafalda, 25, and a Massachusetts family of four \u2014 Dimitri and Ecaterina Doncev and their two children, Emily and Mark \u2014 who were traveling to a family wedding.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was traveling from New York to Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The non-English-speaking\u00a0Staten Island charter bus driver involved in Friday\u2019s catastrophic crash\u00a0on I-95 in Virginia that killed five has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14674,254,1015,9,56,63,65,64,58,418],"class_list":["post-249051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bus-drivers","tag-car-crashes","tag-deaths","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}