Illegal Immigrant Truck Driver Causes Fatal Crash in California

Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old illegal immigrant from India, crashed a semi-truck into multiple vehicles on Interstate 10 in Ontario, California, on October 22, 2025, killing three people and injuring four others. Singh, a resident of Yuba City, California, was driving under the influence of drugs at a high speed and failed to brake as traffic slowed, causing a chain-reaction collision involving eight vehicles, including four big rigs. Dashcam footage captured the incident, showing Singh's truck plowing into stopped traffic and creating a fireball. He was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and gross vehicular manslaughter.

Singh entered the United States illegally in March 2022, was caught at the California border, and released under the Biden administration's policies. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lodged a detainer on him following his arrest.

Similar incidents involving illegal immigrants with California-issued commercial driver's licenses include a case in August 2025, where Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant from India, made an illegal U-turn on Florida's Turnpike, causing a crash that killed three people. Singh obtained his CDL in California despite failing English reading tests.

A nationwide audit of commercial driver's licenses, initiated after the Florida crash, revealed that one in four licenses issued in California were improperly granted to non-U.S. citizens, including illegal immigrants who failed required reading tests. The U.S. Department of Transportation has since tightened rules for noncitizen truck drivers.