Chinese Bus Driver Involved in Crash that Killed 5 in VA Couldn’t Speak English, Got CDL in NY
In March, Driver Jing S. Dong got a ticket for driving 72 mph in a 50 mph.
Another preventable tragedy is forcing Americans to confront an uncomfortable question: how did a commercial driver who allegedly could not read or speak English obtain a CDL in the first place?
According to reporting on a devastating Virginia bus crash that killed five people, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy noted the driver had been licensed in New York despite an apparent inability to meet the federal English-language requirement for commercial drivers.
Five people were killed and 44 others were hospitalized when a Staten Island bus driver, who didn’t speak English, smashed into stopped traffic along I-95 in Virginia, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.
Jing S. Dong, a Chinese native who obtained US citizenship, was allegedly driving the motorcoach from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina, when it struck a Chevrolet Suburban in Stafford County, near Quantico, just after 2:30 a.m. Friday morning.
The crash sparked a chain reaction involving at least 6 vehicles, officials said. Traffic had slowed down for a work zone on the highway at the time of the crash.
“The preliminary investigation indicates that traffic was slowing southbound for an upcoming work zone,” [according to] state police. “A bus failed to slow for traffic and struck six vehicles.”
BREAKING: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirms the driver of the bus that crashed into a line of cars in Virginia, kiIIing 5 and injuring 34, is a Chinese national who became a U.S. citizen and DOESN’T SPEAK ENGLISH.
He got his CDL from Democrat Kathy Hochul’s New York. pic.twitter.com/6ozlAPk2Uz
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 29, 2026
The requirement to be fluent in English is not a racist, bureaucratic technicality, but a core safety standard embedded in federal regulations to ensure drivers can read road signs, understand hazard warnings, and communicate with officials in emergencies.
The result of having an unqualified driver in that bus is five dead Americans, and at least thirty-four who were injured.
Just after 2:30 a.m. local time on Friday, May 29, a bus “failed to slow for traffic” on Interstate 95 in Stafford County, striking six other vehicles, Virginia State Police (VSP) said in a news release previously obtained by PEOPLE. The five people killed in the crash were in cars hit by the bus, while at least 34 others were hospitalized following the incident.
Jing S. Dong, who was allegedly driving the bus at the time, also suffered injuries from the crash. He was arrested on Saturday by the Virginia State Police and served with felony warrants in the hospital, the BBC reported, citing Virginia prosecutor Eric Olsen.
According to the outlet, Olsen said there is enough evidence to suggest that Dong, 48, of Staten Island, New York, was driving in a “criminally negligent manner” at the time of the crash.
Dong was clearly a menace, as he was scheduled to appear in court this week for a speeding ticket.
Driver Jing S. Dong got a ticket for driving 72 mph in a 50 mph zone on March 6. According to Maryland State Police, a trooper conducted a traffic stop on a coach charter bus in the area of southbound Route 3 at Charles Hall Road in Anne Arundel County at about 1:20 a.m.
Dong, 48, of New York, received a ticket for exceeding the speed limit. There were passengers on the bus at the time.
Dong was scheduled to go to court on Tuesday, June 2, at 9 a.m. for the ticket.
As I have previously documented in my analysis of CDL issuance practices in New York, there are longstanding questions about how rigorously these federal standards are being enforced at the state level. In particular, gaps in testing integrity, language accommodation practices, and oversight have raised red flags about whether compliance is being treated as optional rather than mandatory.
As a reminder, I recently reported that New York lost more than $73.5 million in federal money because the Transportation Department determined that the state had refused to revoke nearly 33,000 questionable commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants since an audit uncovered problems last year.
Meanwhile, as Hot Air’s Beege Welborne notes, families are now bearing the tragic consequences of failing to strictly adhere to basic rules related to safety.
A lovely young woman and an entire young family, immigrants pursuing their own American dream, are now gone, most likely because a Chinese national could not read the caution signs for the road construction that came up in the middle of the night.
💔🚨 Look at the photograph one more time before you read this. The seven-year-old in the blazer. The thirteen-year-old in her school uniform. They were killed six hours after their mother finished baking for a wedding.
Their names were Mark and Emily Doncev. Their parents —… pic.twitter.com/L8VJflWvVd
— Aric Chen (@aricchen) May 31, 2026
If the details of this case are confirmed, it would represent not just an individual failure, but a systemic one with deadly consequences.
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I’m afraid the melting pot of America is boiling over thanks to the left cranking the knob that controls the burner.
It’s not a melting pot when you’ve got “immigrants” who refuse to assimilate and instead insist on turning America into a 3rd world $#!+hole.
addendum….Flex is a SLC, Utah based manufacturer that has imported a bunch of CCP nationals under the guise of engineering techs. They currently manufacture IGBT converters for solar panels under the name EnPhase, and none of those smelly engineers could communicate with we automation techs without Google Translate.
I kind of felt sorry for them, as my perception was that they were here against their will and were homesick.
This is just horrible. Just imagine that you’re a firefighter having to cut the bodies from the mangled wreckage. Just imagine that it was your family members killed in such a preventable way, all to advance stupid political goals of the left.
We cannot bring the lost back but we can certainly bring the pain to those responsible for giving this man a drivers license.
The bus company should be sued into bankruptcy and its leadership thrown in prison. I mean, what the actual (bleep) is wrong with people?
There must have been a state trooper that signed off on the driver’s competence. He or she should be severely disciplined for allowing a passing score.
The state needs to feel the pain as well because this incident has a political angle to it as well. Can federal charges be filed? Can we further remove funding?
Agreed and nail the ‘training school’ that passed this guy. Thankfully SCOTUS just ruled that the companies hiring/selecting/assigning CDL drivers are potentially liable for their actions.
I don’t think the state police have to sign off. I believe the tests are administered through the schools.
Everyone knows Asians are terrible drivers. They can only see through a narrow slit and are so short the dashboard blocks half their view.
Have you ever considered destroying your computer?
That would be wong.
There are times to shut the hell up. This is one of them. I wish LI had a nice civilized block feature for its antiquated comment system.
Living up to all the stereotypes
There should be one further step. The bus driver was also a US Citizen. How did that happen? You’re supposed to have a command of English to become a citizen. I would expect and hope that DHS is looking into that question.
A few years ago, I was in a jury pool. During voir dire, one juror said that she could not serve because her English wasn’t good. The judge asked her if she was a citizen. She replied yes. He then said that if she was a citizen, then her English would be good enough to serve. So in theory, the language bar exists; in practice, probably not so much.
Doesn’t apply in this case but the 50/20 rule is an exception that needs to be withdrawn. If an applicant is age 50 and has been lawfully in the USA for 20 years the language requirement is waived. IMO the language requirement isn’t being observed in good faith on a consistent, objective basis against a realistic standard. We should move to use the same language testing criteria that the DoD/State Dept use and require a score of 3 out of 5. Set one year between examination if somebody fails and give them 3 attempts within five years. Fail to pass within that five year period and you are locked out of seeking naturalization.
and you are locked out of seeking naturalization
Which really should also mean you’re going home.
Who would stay for 20 years in a country and not learn the basics of the language. He doesn’t need to be able to get a Philosophy degree with English only instruction but he should be able to carry on a mid level conversation and read the signs.
Apparently lots of people b/c efforts to end this exception are facing resistance.
IMO, the language requirement should be standardized using the same tests as DoD/State dept use and 3 as the minimum. As for CDL nobody who is ‘non domiciled’ aka no green card should be eligible period and anyone who can’t speak/understand English or read basics like road signs should be disqualified from a DL of any kind. No whining when an Alabama State Trooper gives commands in English that you don’t understand and you get a taser/pepper spray deployed followed by compliance strikes with a baton until you…..willingly comply with lawful verbal commands in English. Sucks to be you if you get Rodney Kinged by inability to understand English.
A hell of a lot of people. In my previous job I worked with the families of kids with disabilities. One family I dealt with (my teeth still grind about it, since the grandma was frikkin’ NUTS) were Puerto Rican, and so US citizens. They had been in Florida for almost 20 years and spoke not a damned bit of English. The only one who did was the son, who had a severe mental disability. Meetings with them took hours because we needed translators. And they weren’t the only such story.
“Driver Jing S. Dong”
A second cousin never removed to Bang Ding Ow.
“If the details of this case are confirmed, it would represent not just an individual failure, but a systemic one”
Don’t even think like that.
Identify the PERSON who signed this mook’s paperwork and imprison her for manslaughter. DO IT NOW. Then efficiently work your way up to the top of her org chart.
Any relation to Long Duck Dong?
I live a short distance from Greenfield, MA, the home of the young family that was killed. The community is devastated and some in this highly liberal area are even questioning the driver’s qualifications.
They should be questioning a whole lot more than that, like why is their philosophy so toxic, killing children and people all over the place.
I don’t disagree with you. Unfortunately, even an tragedy, or perhaps more accurately, an atrocity, will not change many minds around here.
They don’t care. There price paid for their infinite immigration fetish is paid by other people. The people hit by the bus. Crime victims. People killed by drunk driving illegals. They might occasionally feel mild sadness at an accident like this, but it passes like gas.
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”—T.S. Eliot
The High Cost of Virtue Signaling
— good thing someone else pays it….
Most times, but not always. It’s the leftist state lottery.
And by that I mean, sometimes the chickens come home to roost on an unlucky liberal.
At which point it all has to become the fault of racism, or guns, or Donald Trump… because any other explanation would just be crazy talk.
Seems like Hochul should be named as Dong’s co-defendant on a murder charge..
New York State boasts the state issues driver’s licenses to non English speakers in the name of inclusivity and safety. But, is there evidence being unable to communicate is safe and inclusive?
How did he get citizenship? I doubt he’s old enough for that requirement to be waived.
I wonder if the driver wasn’t someone trafficked in from the Fuzhou area–the buckle of the immigration fraud and people-smuggling belt.
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