On Feb. 26, Fung Wah was ordered to “immediately cease passenger service and provide its entire fleet of 28 motorcoaches for thorough and detailed safety inspections by qualified inspectors.

According to its website, Fung Wah offers low-cost bus service between New York and Boston. The company has buses running on the half hour from Friday to Sunday as well as on all holidays from New York to Boston starting with departures at 6:30 a.m. through its last bus of the night at 11 p.m. The company runs from Boston to New York on the same days running from 2 a.m. until 11 p.m. ”

Most tickets on Fung Wah cost $15. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the station prior to departure. The trip, according to Fung Wah’s website takes between four and five hours.

As of Feb. 26, the US Department of Transportation ordered the Fung Wah bus line to “immediately cease passenger service” and subject its entire fleet of motorcoaches to detailed safety inspections.Department of Public Utilities chairwoman Ann Berwick said that inspectors looked at nine buses used by Fung Wah Bus and found serious problems with eight, including cracks in their frames. Berwick said she is asking the federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to pursue the ‘‘Imminent Hazard Order’’ for what she called the company’s ‘‘blatant disregard for federal safety regulations and putting the company’s own drivers, passengers, and the motoring public at risk.’’

A dump truck struck a parked Fung Wah bus in New York on June 23, 2008, creating a chain of collisions that left one pedestrian dead and six others injured, police said. The accident took place at the corner of Bowery and Canal streets.

A Fung Wah bus carrying 35 passengers crashed into a guardrail at the Allston-Brighton tolls on Feb. 14, 2007, on the westbound Massachusetts Turnpike. Though the bus had to be towed from the scene, no one was injured

Rescue workers helped passengers at at the scene of an overturned bus on Sept. 5, 2006, in Auburn. About 30 passengers were brought to hospitals after the private passenger bus run by Fung Wah overturned on an Interstate 290 off-ramp, not far from the Massachusetts Turnpike.

In the 2006 accident, there were 57 people on board, and 30 were treated for cuts and bruises, according to authorities. State Police said there were no serious injuries.

The state holds regular, unannounced inspections of buses. In this, photo from Aug. 24, 2005, a Fung Wah driver passed his paperwork to state inspectors during an inspection at South Station. In 2006, after meeting with federal and state regulators for nearly three hours, the owner of the discount Fung Wah Bus line agreed to allow all of his buses to be inspected every 90 days and to immediately stop using drivers who are not able to read and speak English.

In 2005, a Fung Wah bus bound for New York caught fire in Meriden, Conn. All 45 passengers were evacuated moments before flames engulfed the bus.

State and federal inspectors pulled a single intercity bus off the road on Aug. 24, 2005, but otherwise found no major violations during a series of unannounced inspections at South Station. The stepped-up enforcement followed a fire on board a Fung Wah discount bus en route from Boston to New York.

Though the bus was destroyed, no one was injured in this 2005 bus fire on a Fung Wah bus. That situation could have been worse, according to The Boston Globe, had the flaming bus not been pulled over by an off-duty firefighter.