Virginia I-95 Motorcoach Crash Kills 5 and Injures 34 as NTSB Opens Probe

27 articles · Updated · WJLA · May 29

Five people — including a 13-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy — were killed and 34 others were hurt after a motorcoach plowed into multiple vehicles on southbound I-95 in Stafford County around 2:35 a.m.
Virginia State Police said the bus, operated by E&P Travel on a New York-to-Charlotte trip, failed to slow for traffic backing up near a work zone and slammed into a Chevrolet Suburban, triggering a chain-reaction crash.
Four victims were in an Acura SUV — a 45-year-old man, 44-year-old woman and two children from Greenfield, Massachusetts — while a 25-year-old Worcester woman in the Suburban also died.
Three injured people were reported in critical condition; Mary Washington Healthcare said it received 19 patients, with two still critical, while southbound I-95 lanes reopened by noon.
The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a team to investigate alongside state police, and authorities said charges are pending.

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