“Emotionally, he is devastated,” lawyer Thad Furlong said of Jing S. Dong, the Fredericksburg Free Press reported. “He is in very much pain.”
“That is the big question of the hour,” Furlong added about the cause of the May 29 wreck.
Bus Crash
“Dong does not speak English,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said after the crash, reported The Center Square. “He also said the CDL was issued by New York in 2024.”
Jing Sheng Dong, who drove the E&P Travel bus that crashed on I-95 in Stafford County on May 29, has been released from the hospital and is now held at Rappahannock Regional Jail.
“The bus driver who faces charges after five people were killed in a chain-reaction crash on I-95 in Stafford County, Virginia, was scheduled to appear in court this week for a speeding ticket, court records say,” WRC TV reported. “Dong charged with involuntary manslaughter after bus crash in Virginia.”
“The National Transportation Safety Board said it is still in the preliminary phases of its investigation into the root cause of the fatal crash. The NTSB said Dong was driving at ‘a high rate of speed.’”
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The driver of a tour bus involved in a multi-vehicle crash that killed five people on Interstate 95 has been arrested and charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter.
Stafford Commonwealth’s Attorney Eric Olsen announced Saturday that his office authorized felony warrants based on evidence showing the bus was traveling at a high rate of speed when it struck slowed traffic in a work zone, causing a chain-reaction crash involving at least eight vehicles.