President Trump’s Transportation Department is done waiting on New York.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has reportedly issued a subpoena to New York after officials said the state refused to cooperate with a federal investigation into Jing Shen Dong.

Dong is the New York commercial driver’s license holder accused of causing a deadly bus crash in Virginia that killed five people and injured dozens more.

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reported the subpoena and the state’s alleged refusal to provide records:

The records fight now lands on top of the central safety question.

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How did a driver who reportedly did not speak English end up with a commercial license to operate a bus on American roads?

That is not a small paperwork issue after five people are dead.

The crash was already under federal review, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had said investigators were looking at Dong’s CDL and training records.

ABC News laid out the crash facts and Duffy’s warning about commercial drivers who cannot communicate on the road:

The driver of the bus at the center of a deadly chain-reaction crash on Interstate 95 in Virginia has been charged with involuntary manslaughter, Virginia State Police said Saturday.

Five people were killed and 44 others injured in the Friday crash.

Jing S. Dong, 48, of Staten Island, New York, who suffered injuries and remains hospitalized, was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter, with additional charges pending, the state police said.

“Even as the Virginia State Police continues to conduct a complex investigation, I have determined that probable cause presently exists to establish that the driver of the tour bus caused this crash and, at the time of the crash, he was driving in a criminally negligent manner,” Stafford County Commonwealth’s Attorney Eric Olsen said in a press release.

The accident unfolded at about 2:35 a.m. Friday on I-95 south in Stafford County, about 45 miles south of Washington, D.C., the state police said.

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As traffic slowed for a work zone, the bus kept moving at speed and struck a Chevrolet Suburban, according to the National Transportation Safety Board and police.

The bus then hit other cars, while the Suburban was forced into an Acura SUV and nearby vehicles.

All told, the chain reaction crash involved at least eight vehicles, the Stafford County commonwealth’s attorney said.

The Acura caught fire, police said. Four of the five people killed were in the Acura: a 45-year-old man, a 44-year-old woman, a 13-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, all from Greenfield, Massachusetts, police said.

The fifth victim killed, identified as Priscilla R. Mafalda, 25, of Worcester, Massachusetts, was in the Suburban, police said.

Forty-four people were taken to hospitals, including three with critical injuries, police said.

The bus — which was en route from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina — was carrying about 34 people, police said.

According to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, federal investigators are reviewing Dong’s commercial driver’s license and training records to determine whether he was qualified to drive a bus.

“Local police confirm the driver of this motorcoach — a man from China who became a U.S. citizen — doesn’t speak English. He received his commercial drivers license from New York State in 2024.

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Unacceptable,” Duffy said on social media.

“If you can’t be properly trained, read our road signs, or communicate with law enforcement, you have no business driving a bus,” he added.

The political pressure is now aimed straight at New York officials.

Commentator Eric Daugherty framed the subpoena as a direct move against Kathy Hochul’s New York over the alleged blocking of the investigation:

The families of the victims deserve answers.

So does every American who shares the highway with commercial buses and trucks licensed by states that are supposed to enforce the rules.

If New York will not hand over the records voluntarily, the Trump administration is now making clear it intends to force the issue.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

 

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