A family of four from Massachusetts who were killed when a bus crashed into multiple vehicles in Virginia were traveling to a wedding with a carload of homemade desserts for the celebration.<\/p>\n
The family wedding will go forward Sunday in South Carolina, but it also will be a time to mourn the loss of Dmitri and Ecaterina Doncev and their two children, Emily and Mark, a relative said Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cA son, a father \u2014 the whole family \u2014 everyone that has been dear to us,\u201d Carolina Bublik said.<\/p>\n
The Doncevs were killed when a motorcoach crashed into vehicles that had slowed down for a work zone on Interstate 95 in Stafford County around 2:35 a.m. Friday. A fifth person, a 25-year-old female from Worcester, Massachusetts, died in an SUV, authorities said.<\/p>\n
More people were treated for injuries, including one who was in critical condition, though most were discharged from the hospital, Mary Washington Healthcare said.<\/p>\n
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash, a monthslong task separate from the work of Virginia State Police. NTSB board member Tom Chapman revealed few new details but said the bus was moving at a high rate of speed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems fairly clear that if there was any braking there wasn\u2019t much, because of the speed and severity of the collision,\u201d Chapman said.<\/p>\n
The bus, which was taking people from New York to North Carolina, was operated by E&P Travel Inc., based in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Police identified the driver as Jing S. Dong, 48, of Staten Island, New York.<\/p>\n
Chapman said Dong’s language proficiency would be part of the NTSB investigation. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, citing police, said on social media that Dong, a native of China, does not speak English.<\/p>\n
Dmitri Doncev, 45, was a nurse who worked at Holyoke Medical Center. Ecaterina Doncev, 44, was a hairstylist who spent days making desserts for the family wedding, Bublik said.<\/p>\n
They emigrated to the U.S. from Moldova in 2008 and settled in Greenfield, Massachusetts, she said.<\/p>\n
Dmitri and brother Iuri tried to stay together while traveling in separate vehicles to South Carolina.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt some point they ended up getting separated,\u201d Bublik said. \u201cDmitri said, \u2018You go ahead. I\u2019ll catch up later.’ It was a big shock when Iuri arrived at the house. Dmitri should have arrived around the same time. When his car did not show up, and he wasn’t picking up the phone \u2014 that\u2019s when the family started panicking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family of four from Massachusetts who were killed when a bus crashed into multiple vehicles in Virginia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[113480,113479,113481,10746,23681,59373,89693,87203,69359,87666,59371,59372,61262,82,84,83,24468,9915,113482,3142,113478],"class_list":["post-315820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-carolina-bublik","tag-jing-s-dong","tag-mary-washington-healthcare","tag-massachusetts","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30061-ap-massachusetts-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30087-ap-north-carolina-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30103-ap-south-carolina-state-news-no-weather","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-sean-duffy","tag-south-carolina","tag-tom-chapman","tag-virginia","tag-virginia-bus-crash-family-deaths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315820","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=315820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}