The bus driver who caused a fatal crash in Virginia is a naturalized US citizen from China and doesn’t speak English.
Five people were killed, including two children, and more than 40 were injured in a bus crash on I-95 early Friday morning.
Multiple vehicles were involved in the crash after the bus driver failed to slow down in time and crashed into a Suburban.
The Suburban got pushed into an Acura SUV.
“The Acura caught fire, police said. Four of the five people killed were in the Acura: a 45-year-old man, a 44-year-old woman, a 13-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, all from Greenfield, Massachusetts, police said,” ABC News reported.
“The fifth victim killed, a 25-year-old woman, was in the Suburban, police said,” the outlet reported.
“Forty-four people were taken to hospitals, including three with critical injuries, police said,” ABC reported.
According to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, the driver of the bus doesn’t even speak English.
The driver obtained his CDL in Democrat-run New York in 2024.
Full statement from Transportation Secretary Duffy:
Five people are dead, including a 13-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, after the driver of a motorcoach slammed into stopped traffic on I-95.
@FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs and our investigators are on the ground at the crash site working with the @NTSB.
Local police confirm the driver of this motorcoach — a man from China who became a U.S. citizen — doesn’t speak English. He received his commercial drivers license from New York State in 2024.
Unacceptable. This is exactly why we are holding states’ accountable, enforcing the rules of the road, and cracking down on drivers who can’t speak English.
If you can’t be properly trained, read our road signs, or communicate with law enforcement, you have no business driving a bus.
Our investigators are reviewing New York licensing records, training documentation, and the driver’s history. Any company, trainer, or school that contributed to putting an unqualified driver on the road will face intense scrutiny.