{"id":314034,"date":"2026-05-29T14:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/314034\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:20:10","slug":"bus-hits-cars-in-virginia-killing-5-people-and-injuring-34-state-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/314034\/","title":{"rendered":"Bus hits cars in Virginia, killing 5 people and injuring 34, state police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STAFFORD, Va. (AP) \u2014 A bus struck six vehicles on Interstate 95 in Virginia as traffic slowed for a work zone, killing five people and sending 34 to hospitals, state police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at about 2:35 a.m. on southbound I-95 in Stafford County. All five of the people who died were in vehicles hit by the bus, and three of the injured are in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe preliminary investigation indicates that traffic was slowing southbound for an upcoming work zone,\u201d state police said in a news release. \u201cA bus failed to slow for traffic and struck six vehicles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately known what the bus was being used for or how many people were aboard.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is under investigation and charges are pending, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Southbound lanes remained closed seven hours after the crash, with traffic being detoured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STAFFORD, Va. (AP) \u2014 A bus struck six vehicles on Interstate 95 in Virginia as traffic slowed for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23681,59373,87666,59371,59372,61262,82,84,83,3142,112987],"class_list":["post-314034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30115-ap-virginia-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-virginia","tag-virginia-bus-crash-interstate-95"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}