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Federal authorities are investigating Friday\u2019s bus crash on U.S. Interstate 95 in Stafford County, Virginia, that left five dead, including a family of four, and 34 others injured.<\/p>\n

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The National Transportation Safety Board said on social media that it\u2019s working with Virginia State Police on a \u201csafety investigation\u201d regarding the crash, which involved a coach bus crashing into six other vehicles that had slowed down for a work zone.<\/p>\n

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on social media that the bus driver is a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from China who doesn\u2019t speak English and who got his commercial driver\u2019s license in New York in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is exactly why we are holding states accountable, enforcing the rules of the road, and cracking down on drivers who can\u2019t speak English. If you can\u2019t be properly trained, read our road signs, or communicate with law enforcement, you have no business driving a bus, Mr. Duffy wrote.<\/p>\n

The driver has been identified as Jing Dong, 48, a Staten Island resident who was also injured in the crash, according to Washington\u2019s WJLA-TV.<\/p>\n

The NTSB has not said what caused the bus to crash.<\/p>\n

The wreck happened in the\u00a0southbound lanes of I-95 near exit 143, which heads to Garrisonville Road in Stafford and to Aquia.<\/p>\n

The bus hit a Chevrolet Suburban, which then hit an Acura SUV and four additional vehicles.<\/p>\n

A 25-year-old Massachusetts woman in the Chevrolet died, as did the family of four, also from Massachusetts, who were in the Acura SUV that caught fire, according to SILive.com.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The victims in the Acura have been identified as Dmitri Doncev, 45; Ecaterina Doncev, 44; and their children, Emily, 13, and Mark, 7, according to Boston\u2019s WBZ-TV. The family was headed to a wedding in South Carolina at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n

Members of their family told WBZ in a statement that \u201cwords cannot adequately express the pain and sorrow felt by their family, friends, church community, coworkers, classmates, and all who had the privilege of knowing them. Their absence leaves a void that can never be filled, but their memories, their love, and the countless lives they touched will remain forever in our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the dead, 44 people were injured in the crash, three of them critically, Virginia State Police spokesman Matthew Demlein said, according to Fredericksburg\u2019s Free Lance\u2013Star.<\/p>\n

Authorities have not said whether the three people with critical injuries were in any of the nonbus vehicles involved in the crash or whether they were on the bus with around 30 passengers, according to Richmond\u2019s WTVR-TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt the big crash, and I leaned up. As he was hitting stuff, it pushed me into the other seat in front of me, and it was\u00a0like\u00a0hard to get up after he just kept crashing into stuff,\u201d bus passenger Wayne Tobin told WTVR.<\/p>\n

The bus, operated by North Carolina-based E&P Travel, was going from New York to Charlotte. The company had a satisfactory rating from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as of April 3, according to Washington\u2019s WUSA.<\/p>\n

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In August 2024, another E&P Travel bus crashed on U.S. Interstate 85 in Lexington, North Carolina. That tour bus struck a traffic control vehicle after failing to slow down, according to a report by North Carolina officials cited by WUSA.<\/p>\n

Other drivers, including truckers, have called attention to the issue of people who cannot speak English acquiring commercial driver\u2019s licenses. In an American Transportation Research Institute survey last year, English language proficiency was the third-highest concern among the drivers surveyed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019ll be truck drivers\u00a0that come\u00a0to our warehouse to pick something up. There\u2019ll be two, three truckers, two drivers in a truck, and two of them speak no English, not even a word,\u201d refrigerated trucking company owner Mike Kucharski\u00a0told The Washington Times\u00a0last October.<\/p>\n

Last August in Florida, an illegal immigrant from India named Harjinder Singh made an illegal U-turn on Florida State Road 91, striking a minivan and killing all three on board.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite\u00a0failing his test in Washington state 10 times, Mr. Singh was able to obtain a commercial driver\u2019s license from Washington and California, despite his immigration status and probable lack of English proficiency. He was using his California license at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n

Florida tried to sue Washington, along with California, over the issue, but the state\u2019s complaint was\u00a0shot down by the Supreme Court\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The federal government has also taken action on the issue. In June 2025, the Transportation Department, in concert with an executive order from President Trump mandating truck drivers be proficient in English, rescinded an Obama administration policy relaxing language proficiency rules for commercial drivers.<\/p>\n

Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association President Todd Spencer said in\u00a0a statement at the time\u00a0that the trade group and the \u201c150,000 truckers we proudly represent strongly support President Trump\u2019s decision to resume enforcement of English proficiency requirements for commercial drivers. Basic English skills are essential for reading critical road signs, understanding emergency instructions, and interacting with law enforcement. Road signs save lives \u2014 but only when they\u2019re understood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over 20,000 truckers have been \u201ckicked out of service for failing to meet basic requirements\u201d since last June, the Transportation Department said in a release in May.<\/p>\n

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, an agency within the\u00a0department, withheld $40 million in federal funds from California over its refusal to enforce the language standards. California then began complying with the standards in January.<\/p>\n

The agency also launched an audit against over 30 states for issuing noncompliant commercial driver\u2019s licenses to nondomiciled drivers. Enforcement actions were sent to 26 states, and the agency withheld $160 million from California and $73 million from New York for failure to revoke those licenses, the Transportation Department said.<\/p>\n

Between June 2025 and May 1, over 28,000 of the noncompliant licenses for nondomiciled drivers were revoked nationwide, and over 6,800 training providers were kicked off the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration registry.<\/p>\n

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