USDOT subpoenas New York DMV for CDL records of bus driver in crash that killed five
Federal transportation officials have taken legal action against the New York Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in an attempt to gain access to records pertaining to a bus driver involved in a multiple fatality crash.
FMCSA Unable To Obtain CDL Records: Subpoena
In a document dated May 29, 2026, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) subpoenaed the New York DMV to compel the agency to produce documents related to Jing Shen Dong, 48, who received his commercial driver’s license (CDL) from New York State in 2024.
USDOT issued the subpoena because the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) “has not been able to obtain the documents through other reasonable means.”
Officials are requiring the New York DMV to hand over all documents pertaining to Dong’s CDL, his entry-level driver training, and any documents pertaining to Dong associated with the investigation into the 7 CDL Driving School.
Failure to comply could result in civil or criminal contempt proceedings, the document warned.
Multiple Killed In Chain-Reaction Crash In Virginia Construction Zone
On May 29, Dong was behind the wheel of a motor coach that collided with six other vehicles in a work zone on southbound I-95 in Stafford County, Virginia.
Officials said that Dong failed to slow for traffic in a construction area.
Five people were killed in the crash, and 44 others were injured.
Bus Driver Faces Multiple Charges
Dong faces five counts of involuntary manslaughter.
“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.
Update on the tragic bus crash in Virginia:
Five people are dead, including a 13-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, after the driver of a motorcoach slammed into stopped traffic on I-95. @FMCSA Administrator Derek Barrs and our investigators are on the ground at the crash… pic.twitter.com/NWPBd9aLPr
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) May 29, 2026
In the wake of the crash U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that local police confirmed that Dong, who is originally from China but became a U.S. citizen, “doesn’t speak English.”
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was not able to confirm Duffy’s assertion that Dong goes not speak English.