Qns. woman Va. crash vic
An 81-year-old woman from Queens has been identified as one of the two people killed in a horrific charter bus crash on a Virginia highway Tuesday morning.
Janetta Cumberbatch of Jamaica died after the bus she was riding from Florida to New York flipped on an exit on Interstate 95 in Prince George County, Virginia State Police said Wednesday.
The bus driver, 40-year-old Yui Man Chow of Staten Island, was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter after the 5:20 a.m. crash. Police said he was speeding when he tried to take an exit, ran off the left side of the ramp and overturned. He was uninjured, police said.
The second fatality was Su Feng Xu, 37, a Chinese national. He died at the scene.
Cumberbatch died a few hours after the crash at a nearby hospital.
Several children and adults on in the bus suffered variety of injuries, police said.
The bus, which carried 56 passengers, was operated by Brooklyn-based Tao Travel Inc. under the name Starline Express, Virginia State Police said. It was traveling from Orlando and stopped in Rocky Mount, N.C., to switch drivers shortly before the crash.
One passenger, Shivon DollarMoore, 40, of Harlem, said the bus had just left a gas station in Stony Creek, Va., and within minutes “we went into a ditch and it [the bus] did a double flip.”
“I just thank God in my life that I’m living,” said Dollar-Moore. “I got injuries. I was so scared. I’ve never been in an accident before.”
She crawled out of a window to escape the wreckage, she said.
She’d been traveling back to New York from a family wedding in South Carolina
The Starline Express route travels between Canal St. in Chinatown and Tampa, with intermediate stops in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.