{"id":849,"date":"2026-05-30T20:39:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2026-05-30T20:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:39:03","slug":"4-of-5-victims-of-virginia-bus-crash-were-traveling-to-a-family-wedding-relative-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"4 of 5 victims of Virginia bus crash were traveling to a family wedding, relative says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>By Ed White | Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A family of four from Massachusetts who were killed when a bus crashed into multiple vehicles in Virginia were traveling to a wedding with a carload of homemade desserts for the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=847\">Capitol rioters clamor for payouts from Trump\u2019s new \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 fund despite backlash<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The family wedding will go forward Sunday in South Carolina, but it also will be a time to mourn the loss of Dmitri and Ecaterina Doncev and their two children, Emily and Mark, a relative said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA son, a father \u2014 the whole family \u2014 everyone that has been dear to us,\u201d Carolina Bublik said.<\/p>\n<p>The Doncev family died early Friday when a motorcoach crashed into vehicles that had slowed down for a work zone on Interstate 95 in Stafford County, Virginia. A fifth person, a 25-year-old female from Worcester, Massachusetts, died in an SUV, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>More people were treated for injuries, including one who was in critical condition, though most were discharged from the hospital, Mary Washington Healthcare said.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the National Transportation Safety Board planned to speak to reporters about the crash investigation Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=845\">\u2018We can take action\u2019: Gilroy community expresses fear, resilience in face of planned ICE facility<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bus was operated by E&amp;P Travel Inc., based in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Virginia State Police identified the driver as Jing S. Dong, 48, of Staten Island, New York.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dmitri, 45, and Ecaterina, 44, emigrated to the U.S. from Moldova in 2008 and settled in Greenfield, Massachusetts, Bublik said.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitri was a nurse who worked at Holyoke Medical Center. Ecaterina was a hair stylist who spent days making desserts for the family wedding, Bublik said.<\/p>\n<p>Dmitri and brother Iuri tried to stay together while traveling in separate vehicles to South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt some point they ended up getting separated,\u201d Bublik said. \u201cDmitri said, \u2018You go ahead. I\u2019ll catch up later.\u2019 It was a big shock when Iuri arrived at the house. Dmitri should have arrived around the same time. When his car did not show up, and he wasn\u2019t picking up the phone \u2014 that\u2019s when the family started panicking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=843\">San Francisco jury convicts man in violent SOMA robbery; sentencing set for June<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A family of four from Massachusetts who were killed when a bus crashed into multiple vehicles in Virginia were traveling to a wedding with a carload of desserts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>4 of 5 victims of Virginia bus crash were traveling to a family wedding, relative says - 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