(The Center Square) – Jing Dong, a U.S. citizen after immigrating from China, will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the quintuple fatal crash early Friday morning, State Police in Virginia say.
Dong drove a motor coach for E&P Travel, headquartered in Kings Mountain, N.C., from New York to North Carolina. A family of four traveling from Massachusetts to South Carolina for a Sunday wedding were killed; a woman from Massachusetts, in the first vehicle hit by the motor coach, was the fifth fatality in the crash on I-95 in Stafford County.
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