A dashcam video captured the moment Indian-origin truck driver Jashanpreet Singh allegedly rammed his vehicle into several cars stuck in slow-moving traffic in California, United States. According to reports, Jashanpreet Singh was reportedly drunk at the time of the incident. The footage shows his red truck plowing through several vehicles and causing chaos on the highway. Three people died in the accident. Police said Jashanpreet Singh failed to apply the brakes as he approached the vehicles ahead and rammed straight into the traffic. They added that toxicology tests later confirmed that he was impaired at the time of the incident. The dashcam video also shows that the vehicle failed to stop even as it continued to approach the vehicles in front of it, leading to the devastating crash that killed three. Jashanpreet Singh was arrested on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide while intoxicated. He is also said to have entered America illegally. According to the reports, Jashanpreet Singh crossed the southern border of the US in 2022 and was released pending an immigration hearing. He was not in legal immigration status, the report said, citing US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sources, who added that United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed an immigration detainer following his arrest. Jashanpreet Singh was released under the Biden administration’s 2022 “alternatives to detention” policy, it said. This is the second case since August involving an Indian-origin truck driver accused of causing a fatal accident in the US. What the White House said White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed the road accident in California and said that the Department of Transportation has already reviewed the case and is investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident. “Regarding this case in California, on October 22, ICE filed an immigration detainer for this individual following his arrest by local authorities in California on charges of manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the influence. He killed three people.” She continued: “And he first entered the United States through the southern border in 2022. And he was released into our country by the previous administration. ICE has established a separate detainer for this individual. And these tragedies follow a disturbing pattern of these criminal illegal aliens being issued commercial vehicle licenses. The Department of Transportation is absolutely working to fix this.” On August 12, 28-year-old Harjinder Singh allegedly made an illegal U-turn in his tractor-trailer in Florida, causing a crash that left three people dead. He was charged with three counts of vehicular homicide. Following the incident, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a pause on all issuances of commercial truck driver work visas. “The increasing number of foreign drivers driving large tractor-trailer trucks on American roads is putting American lives at risk and undermining the livelihoods of American truckers,” Rubio posted on social media. (With agency input)
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