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The victims included a Greenfield couple and their two children, as well as a 25-year-old Worcester woman.
GREENFIELD, Mass. The victims of the May 29, Va., fatal crash involving a bus were Ekaterina (left) and Dmitry Donsev (right) Donsev, along with their son Mark and daughter Emily. Courtesy/GoFundMe
Four Greenfield family members and a Worcester woman have been identified as the five Massachusetts residents killed in a charter bus crash on a Virginia highway this week.
Virginia State Police identified the victims as Dmitry Donsev, 45; Ekaterina Donsev, 44 years old; Emily Donsev, 13; and Mark Donsev, 7, all of Greenfield, along with 25-year-old Priscilla R. Mafalda of Worcester.
The accident occurred Thursday on Interstate 81 near Lexington, Virginia, when a charter bus traveling from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina, collided with several vehicles as traffic slowed for road work. In addition to the five dead, 34 others were injured and taken to local hospitals, according to authorities.
Investigators said the bus failed to slow down and collided with a Chevrolet Suburban driven by Mafalda. The impact sent the SUV into the Donsev family’s Acura, which caught fire.
Dmitry, a nurse at Holyoke Medical Center, was driving with his family overnight to attend a wedding in South Carolina when the accident occurred, according to Bloomberg News. Boston Globe.
Dimitri’s niece, Karolina Bublik, 27, shared the family’s grief with the family. globeSaying that the Donsev family will join the extended family at church every Sunday.
“Now it’s going to be very difficult, next Sunday, when we won’t be able to have them sit next to us at the lunch table,” Bublik said.
The Doncevs were members of the Providence Christian Academy community, where Emily and Mark attended school.
“The Donsev family was a cherished part of our school community, and our students, families, faculty and staff feel their loss deeply,” the school said in a statement.
Family friend A GoFundMe To raise money to cover the family’s funeral expenses.
Few details were immediately available about Mafalda.
The police charged the bus driver, Jing S. Dong, 48, is charged with two counts of manslaughter, and authorities said additional charges are pending.
A resident of Staten Island, New York, Dong obtained his commercial driver’s license in 2024, According to To Transport Minister Sean Duffy.
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