FLUSHING — A bus crash left four women dead and dozens of passengers injured early Tuesday when a Flushing driver rolled a bus over on I-95 in Caroline County, Virginia, according to the New York Post.
Kin Yiu Cheng, 37, the driver of the Sky Express Bus Co. bus — which was en route to Chinatown in Manhattan — was charged with reckless driving and ordered held on $3,000 bail after the accident, the Post said.
Investigators “ruled out any mechanical errors or malfunctions as a causative factor in the crash,” state police told the Post, and the National Transportation Safety Board is also looking into what went wrong.
The Virginia State and Caroline County police departments declined to comment Tuesday evening. No one answered the phone at Sky Express Tuesday evening.
The bus left Greensboro, N.C., at about 10:30 p.m. Monday and crashed about 4:55 a.m. on a rural road about 30 miles north of Richmond, the Post reported.
It ran off the right side of the road and rolled, coming to a rest on its roof, the Post said.
There were 58 passengers on the Cheung’s bus, and the 54 surviving passengers were taken to 11 hospitals for injuries minor to life-threatening, the Post reported, and Virginia medical examiners were trying to determine the identities of the dead women Tuesday.
