BOWLING GREEN, Va. — A bus run by a company with a record of safety problems overturned on a Virginia highway early Tuesday, killing four people and injuring 54 others.
The driver faces a reckless-driving charge, and police say fatigue was a factor in the crash along Interstate 95. Over the past two years, the company has been involved in several accidents and cited for 46 violations of drivers being fatigued.
The SkyExpress bus swerved off northbound I-95 about 30 miles north of Richmond, hit an embankment and flipped. Fifty-four people were taken to hospitals and treated for minor to severe injuries.
The bus left Greensboro, N.C., on Monday night and was headed to Chinatown in New York City with 59 people aboard, including 37-year-old driver Kin Yiu Cheung, of Flushing, N.Y., police said. He is being held in lieu of $3,000 bail, and the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.
The company offered its condolences to the families of the four women killed and said it would cooperate fully in the investigation. The exact cause of the crash may not be known for months. The Associated Press
