A truck driver of Indian origin killed three people in California, USA. The police have registered a case against 21-year-old Jashanpreet Singh for driving a truck under the influence of alcohol and killing people and arrested him.
Washington/New Delhi. A 21-year-old Indian man named Jashanpreet Singh has been arrested by the police in California, America. Jashanpreet is a truck driver and is accused of crushing three people and injuring several others. According to the police, the accused, an illegal immigrant, killed three people while driving under the influence of alcohol. The three victims who died in the crash have not yet been publicly identified.
Video of the accident captured on dashcam
According to reports, Jashanpreet’s truck plowed into slow-moving traffic on a freeway in San Bernardino County, Southern California. The accident, which occurred on the I-10 freeway, was captured on video on the dashcam of a Freightliner tractor-trailer. The footage shows the truck colliding with an SUV, which then caught fire and killed at least three people. In this accident, Jashanpreet himself and a mechanic who was helping in changing the tire on the roadside were also injured.
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Jashanpreet was drunk at the time of the accident
Police said that Jashanpreet Singh had not applied brakes before the collision and was drunk at the time of the accident. The accused was later taken to the hospital and given medical examination, in which it was found that he was intoxicated.
Entered America illegally in 2022
According to reports, Jashanpreet Singh crossed the southern US border in 2022 and was stopped for the first time by Border Patrol agents in the El Centro sector of California in March of the same year. However, the Joe Biden administration later released him into the country’s interior under its “Alternatives to Detention” policy, which allows some undocumented immigrants to remain free while awaiting immigration hearings. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that Jashanpreet has no valid immigration status in the country. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued an immigration detention order against him following his arrest.