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The non-English-speaking\u00a0Staten Island charter bus driver involved in Friday\u2019s catastrophic crash\u00a0on I-95 in Virginia that killed five has been formally charged.<\/p>\n

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Virginia State Police announced Saturday that 48-year-old Jing S. Dong faces two counts of involuntary manslaughter, with additional charges likely in the wreck \u2014 in which the victims included a family headed to a wedding.<\/p>\n

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stated that Dong does not speak English, sparking an NTSB investigation into the driver\u2019s language proficiency.<\/p>\n

It is not immediately known if Dong is in custody or acquired legal counsel.<\/p>\n

The development comes as federal investigators reveal the E&P Travel Inc. motorcoach was moving at a high rate of speed with little to no braking before slamming into a work-zone traffic backup near Quantico.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt seems fairly clear that if there was any braking there wasn\u2019t much, because of the speed and severity of the collision,\u201d said Tom Chapman, an NTSB board member.<\/p>\n

The victims have been identified as Priscilla Mafalda, 25, and a Massachusetts family of four \u2014 Dimitri and Ecaterina Doncev and their two children, Emily and Mark \u2014 who were traveling to a family wedding.<\/p>\n

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The bus was traveling from New York to Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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