STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A grand jury has indicted a Staten Island bus driver on additional charges in connection with a deadly multi-vehicle crash in Stafford County, Virginia.<\/p>\n
On Monday, a grand jury in Stafford Circuit Court hit Jing Sheng Dong, 48, with three additional felony counts of involuntary manslaughter and a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving.<\/p>\n
Dong was previously charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the wake of the devastating collision<\/a> which took place on southbound I-95 early Friday morning.<\/p>\n The bus, operated by E&P Travel, hit a Chevrolet Suburban that was subsequently pushed into an Acura SUV and additional vehicles, according to police.<\/p>\n The Acura, which caught fire, contained four of the five fatalities: Dmitri Doncev, 45; his wife, Ecaterina, 44; their daughter Emily, 13; and their son Mark, 7, all from Greenfield, Massachusetts. Priscilla Mafalda, a 25-year-old woman from Worcester, Massachusetts, was in the Suburban and also killed, authorities said.<\/p>\n Dong is now charged with involuntary manslaughter for each of the deaths. He could face up to 50 years in prison, as each count of involuntary manslaughter carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.<\/p>\n Previously, Stafford Commonwealth\u2019s Attorney Eric Olsen said that although the investigation is ongoing, authorities have established that the bus was traveling at a high rate of speed when it struck one or more vehicles that were slowing in a work zone. This ultimately caused a chain reaction involving at least eight vehicles.<\/p>\n \u201cEven as the Virginia State Police continues to conduct a complex investigation, I have determined that probable cause presently exists to establish that the driver of the tour bus caused this crash and, at the time of the crash, he was driving in a criminally negligent manner,\u201d Olsen said in a press release issued Saturday.<\/p>\n Following the issuance of the new indictments, the Circuit Court issued a bench warrant ordering Dong\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n A Virginia State Trooper arrested Dong at the hospital on Monday on the new charges. He is being held without bond on the indictments.<\/p>\n