STAFFORD COUNTY — Jing S. Dong, 48, of Staten Island, New York, was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in connection with a crash on Interstate 95 in Stafford County, Virginia. The crash occurred at approximately 2:35 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, May 29, 2026, on southbound Interstate 95.

The bus failed to slow for traffic approaching a work zone and crashed into six vehicles. It first struck a Chevrolet Suburban, which then collided with an Acura SUV and additional vehicles. Five people died in the crash: four in the Acura SUV and one in the Chevrolet Suburban.

The four occupants of the Acura SUV were identified as Dmitri Doncev, 45; his wife Ecterina, 44; their daughter Emily, 13; and son Mark, 7, all from Greenfield, Massachusetts. The victim in the Chevrolet Suburban was identified as 25-year-old Priscilla Mafalda from Worcester, Massachusetts.

Forty-four people were injured and taken to area hospitals, three with critical injuries. There were 34 people aboard the bus at the time of the collision. Jing S. Dong suffered injuries in the crash.

The bus was operated by E&P Travel of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and was transporting passengers from New York to North Carolina. Additional charges against Jing S. Dong are pending.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. Both Virginia State Police and the NTSB are investigating the bus driver's actions before the crash. "It seems fairly clear that if there was any braking, there wasn't much, because of the speed and the severity of the collision," NTSB member Tom Chapman said. "One of the things that we do, as a matter of course, is we do a 72-hour look back to see what the driver's activities were during the days leading up to the crash," he said.