New York Daily News

Harlem woman – ‘I thank God’ I survived crash

- BY CLAYTON GUSE

A Harlem woman is among the survivors of a charter bus crash that killed two people in Virginia on Tuesday.

“I just thank God in my life that I’m living,” said Shivon Dollar-Moore. “I got injuries. I was so scared. I’ve never been in an accident before.”

Dollar-Moore, 40, was on her way back to New York from a family wedding in South Carolina when the bus she was in overturned at an exit on Interstate 95 in Prince George County about 5 a.m., Virginia State Police said.

“We had just left the gas station in Stony Creek [Va.] and probably like 10 minutes into the drive we went into a ditch and it [the bus] did a double flip,” she explained.

Two of the 57 people on the bus were killed and dozens more were injured, cops said.

Dollar-Moore escaped the wreckage through a window and lay in the ditch next to the bus until first responders arrived. She was taken to a hospital because the “entire left side” of her body was injured.

The bus driver, Yui Man Chow, 40, of Staten Island, was speeding when the bus crashed, cops said. He was charged with involuntar­y manslaught­er and was being held in a regional jail.

The bus was operated by Brooklyn-based Tao Travel Inc. under the name Starline Express, Virginia State Police said.

The Starline Express route travels between Canal St. in Chinatown and Tampa, with intermedia­te stops in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

Police said that a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administra­tion representa­tive was at the scene of the crash and that the National Transporta­tion Safety Board has been notified.

A Tao Travel Inc. bus driver was ticketed in Delaware for speeding in February 2018.

One of the company’s buses also failed an inspection in New York in March 2017 because it didn’t have working emergency exit windows.

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