Four buses from a discount bus company that was ordered to stop operating after a Virginia crash killed four people and injured more than 50, were stopped Friday on the Capital Beltway in Maryland.
An alert motorist spotted the Sky Express buses on the Beltway’s Inner Loop and called police at about 11:15 a.m. Friday, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
Federal regulators shut down the bus company after the deadly May 31 crash on Interstate 95 in Caroline County, Va. The bus was headed from Greensboro, N.C. to New York City when it strayed off the highway, struck an embankment and flipped over.
Maryland State Police stopped the buses Friday and discovered that they were being repossessed by lienholders in North Carolina, according to the Times-Dispatch.
Two of the driver’s didn’t have a commercial driver’s license and were cited for being unqualified to operate their vehicles, police said. None of the buses had logbooks to show that they hadn’t been driving more than the 10-hour federal limit.
The driver in the fatal crash was charged with four counts of involuntary manslaughter and remains jailed.
