Bus driver in crash that killed 5 people, injured 44 on Virginia interstate charged with involuntary manslaughter | CNN

A bus driver who is accused of failing to slow down for traffic and crashing into six cars, which left five people dead and dozens of others injured near Quantico, Virginia, has been arrested and charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter, the Virginia State Police said Saturday. Additional charges are pending, police said in a statement. Traffic was slowing in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95, due to a work zone ahead, when the bus struck the other vehicles around 2:35 a.m. Friday, police said. “A tour bus, travelling southbound at a high rate of speed, struck one or more vehicles that were moving slowly through a work zone, causing a chain reaction crash involving at least 8 vehicles,” Stafford Commonwealth’s Attorney Eric Olsen said in a news release Saturday. The bus was operated by North Carolina-based company E&P Travel and was heading from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina, when the crash happened, according to state police. A total of 34 people were in the bus. State police identified the driver as 48-year-old Jing S. Dong of Staten Island, New York. Authorities are looking into Dong’s “actions prior to the crash,” according to Matt Demlei