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A bus crashed into vehicles slowing for a work zone on Interstate 95 in Virginia early Friday, killing five people and injuring dozens, including the driver, authorities said. <\/p>\n

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The crash happened at about 2:35 a.m. on southbound I-95 in Stafford County, near Quantico. All five of the people who died were in vehicles hit by the bus, and 44 people were taken to hospitals, including three in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe preliminary investigation indicates that traffic was slowing southbound for an upcoming work zone,\u201d state police said in a news release. \u201cA bus failed to slow for traffic and struck six vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police said there were \u201capproximately\u201d 34 passengers on the bus.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got patients in multiple hospitals. We\u2019ve got the driver at a hospital here,\u201d said Peyton Vogel, a Federal Transit Administration spokesperson who was on the scene. \u201cI\u2019ve got to say, this is one of the most tragic things I\u2019ve ever seen. Absolutely tragic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four of the fatalities were in one car, which caught fire. State police said the victims were a 45-year-old male, a 44-year-old female, a 13-year-old female and a 7-year-old male, all from Greenfield, Massachusetts. Their names were not released by police, but a statement from the school the children attended in Greenfield said they were Dmitri and Ecaterina Doncev and their daughter, Emily, and son, Mark.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Doncev family was a cherished part of our school community, and their loss is being felt deeply by our students, families, faculty, and staff,\u201d Providence Christian Academy said.<\/p>\n

The fifth victim, an unidentified 25-year-old female from Worcester, Massachusetts, was in an SUV that was struck by the bus. <\/p>\n

State police identified the bus driver as Jing S. Dong, 48, of Staten Island, New York. Charges are pending, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on the social media platform X that Dong was an American citizen originally from China who got his commercial driver\u2019s license two years ago in New York. <\/p>\n

Mary Washington Healthcare said it received 19 patients from the crash. It posted online that seven of the patients were taken to its trauma center in Fredericksburg, where four were being discharged and three remained in treatment \u2014 one in serious condition and two in critical condition. Twelve were taken to its hospital in Stafford, where they were later discharged in good condition.<\/p>\n

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The National Transportation Safety Board posted online that it was sending a \u201cgo-team\u201d to conduct a safety investigation into the crash and that it would have a spokesperson at the scene.<\/p>\n

The southbound lanes had reopened by noon, but traffic was still backed up for a couple of miles, according to a state transportation advisory.<\/p>\n

Bus company had satisfactory record<\/h3>\n

The bus was operated by E&P Travel Inc., based in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. A compliance snapshot from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration showed only one injury accident involving the company\u2019s vehicles in the previous two years and listed its safety rating as \u201csatisfactory.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company was incorporated Nov. 24, 2023, by Shuo Liu, according to records from the North Carolina Secretary of State\u2019s office. Liu is also listed as the registered agent. The FMCSA site said the company operated four vehicles and had 11 drivers.<\/p>\n

While it is too soon to say what caused Friday\u2019s crash, federal authorities have been grappling with interstate passenger bus safety issues for decades.<\/p>\n

Following a series of passenger bus crashes in 2008 that killed 41 people, the U.S. Department of Transportation published a Motorcoach Safety Action Plan.<\/p>\n

The NTSB investigated 16 fatal motorcoach crashes between June 1998 and January 2008, finding that driver-related problems such as fatigue, medical condition and inattention accounted for 56 percent of the accidents. The agency said driver-related problems were responsible for 60 percent of the fatalities in those crashes.<\/p>\n

Among the actions recommended were creation of a pre-employment driver history screening program and a national drug- and alcohol-testing database \u201cto enable motorcoach operators to determine if drivers have a history of violating DOT alcohol or drug rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Breed reported from Wake Forest, North Carolina, and Verduzco from Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Associated Press journalists Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire, Michael Casey in Boston and Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City contributed. <\/p>\n

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