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I’m sure the Washington Post will provide relevant information, right?

‘The bus was going really, really fast,’ survivor says of deadly Virginia crash
The accident, involving a bus and six vehicles, was declared a “Mass Casualty Incident” by authorities.

Rhonda Wright was asleep when the bus she was riding crashed into the first vehicle.

“It jolted me awake, and I heard bang, bang, bang. The bus was going really, really fast,” she told The Washington Post.

The bus, en route from New York City to Charlotte, crashed into several more vehicles before finally coming to a halt on the side of Interstate 95 in Stafford County, Virginia, according to authorities. When the bus finally stopped, Wright said the man sitting next to her helped her out of the emergency exit window.

“He saved my life when the smoke started coming,” Wright, 64, said. “I was scared to death to jump. But there was smoke in the bus. I had to go.”

Five people were killed and dozens more were injured Friday in the early-morning “mass casualty” crash, authorities said.

All those killed were in the vehicles hit by the bus, which occurred at 2:35am in a work zone. Let’s go to paragraph 13

The bus driver, identified as Jing S. Dong, 48, was injured in the crash, according to state police. When reached by phone, the driver’s wife said in Mandarin that she did not want to comment on the incident and that she was unsure about the status of her husband’s injuries.

Huh.

Wright said she was on edge throughout the bus ride. “The driver was driving very aggressively throughout the day,” she said.

I wonder why? Paragraph 18

In a statement on X Friday evening, Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy said Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Administrator Derek Barrs was at the crash site with investigators working with NTSB. He also said local police said Dong was from China and had become a U.S. citizen and does not speak English. The Post was unable to verify that claim.

“If you can’t be properly trained, read our road signs, or communicate with law enforcement, you have no business driving a bus,” Duffy said. “Our investigators are reviewing New York licensing records, training documentation, and the driver’s history.”

The WP probably made little to no effort to verify the claim. Maybe an email sent out to DHS. How many times are people going to be given jobs when they cannot properly drive or speak English. Speaking English is 100% a requirement for someone who is going through the normal citizenship process unless you are 55 and up, and requires very specific exceptions. Really, you have no business driving if you cannot read or speak English

Duffy’s tweet notes that the local police confirmed he cannot speak English. Also

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.

Someone needs to go to jail along with the driver. And in response to Duffy’s tweet

The company had a previous violation for a driver who could not speak English. The business has an two apartments as the address and 5 other Transportation businesses registered to the same apartments. The owner and the organization who issued the license needs to be charged as… pic.twitter.com/2ZIQWxPEFy

— VBri (@VirgFortne5) May 30, 2026

The WP finally mentions that same information deeper into the story. That’s what they so often do: bury the relevant information way down in the article, when people have either given up on the article with the 3 paragraph/30 second rule or speed reading.