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Bus driver in fatal Virginia crash had previous speeding charges
National Transportation Safety Board findings say speed helped the bus fail to slow for a work zone before the crash killed five and injured dozens.
- On Monday, a grand jury indicted bus driver Jing Sheng Dong on three additional charges of involuntary manslaughter and one count of reckless driving following a deadly chain-reaction crash on I-95 in Stafford County, Virginia.
- Preliminary findings from the National Transportation Safety Board indicate speed played a role in the bus failing to slow for traffic approaching a work zone, causing a multi-vehicle collision that killed five people.
- Dong was scheduled to stand trial Tuesday in Annapolis, Maryland, for a previous speeding arrest on March 9, 2026, where Maryland State Police clocked him driving 72 miles per hour in a 50 mph zone.
- Four of the victims were members of a Greenfield, Massachusetts, family traveling in an Acura, while 25-year-old Priscilla R. Mafalda of Worcester, Massachusetts, died inside a Chevrolet Suburban struck by the bus.
- Prosecutor Eric Olsen stated that Dong, who remains hospitalized, will be transported to jail upon his release; court documents related to the crash do not list an attorney representing him.
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Bus driver in fatal Virginia crash had previous speeding charges
Court records show a bus driver accused of causing a fatal chain-reaction crash in Virginia had been cited twice for speeding in the last two years.
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