Update: The trucker was identified as Jashanpreet Singh, a 21-year-old illegal immigrant from India who crossed into the United States through the southern border. Border Patrol first encountered him in the El Centro area in March 2022, but under former President Joe Biden’s “alternatives to detention” program, he was released into the country pending an immigration hearing, according to federal officials.
Original Story, October 22
Three people were killed and several others were severely injured after the driver of a semi-truck plowed into vehicles on a freeway in Ontario, California, on Tuesday.
Eyewitnesses said the collision created a massive fireball after the driver failed to stop as traffic slowed down.
KTLA reported later Wednesday that authorities identified the driver as Jashanpreet Singh, 21, a resident of Yuba City. Dashcam video obtained by KABC shows the moment Singh plowed into three vehicles before smashing into another semi-truck.
A total of 8 vehicles, including four big rig trucks, were involved in the deadly crash.
An eyewitness said Singh was driving at a high rate of speed when he slammed into the vehicles.
Singh, according to the California Highway Patrol, did not hit his brakes prior to the crash. Singh was arrested at the scene on suspicion of driving under the influence.
“He didn’t try to slow down. He just went full force into the back of another truck, crushing two other cars,” the eyewitness told the KTLA-5, adding that the crash had created a huge fireball.
Singh was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs. Other charges are pending.
He allegedly got his CDL to drive a semi in California.
Singh as the same last name as the truck driver in Florida who killed three people, but it is a common name.
He has since been booked into the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga to await charges for vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of drugs.
BREAKING: 21-year-old Jashanpreet Singh has been ARRESTED for killing at least 3 people while under the influence operating an 18-wheeler in California.
Oddly enough, his mugshot is nowhere to be found in the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s database.
THIS MUST END. pic.twitter.com/16TIBpoIxB
— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) October 22, 2025
JUST IN: The truck driver who is accused of killing 3 people by slamming into the back of multiple vehicles in California has been identified as Jashanpreet Singh, according to KTLA.
The 21-year-old was allegedly on drugs while speeding.
California Highway Patrol says Singh… pic.twitter.com/INPNDkKEi8
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 22, 2025
No thank you, don’t come again!
LAWLESS, CORRUPT, AMERICA-HATING, FAR-LEFT EXTREMIST GREASY-GAVIN NewSCUM’S COMMIEFORNIA ONCE AGAIN HELPS AND ENABLES A CRIMINAL TO KILL AMERICANS.
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I drove for the beverage industry many years up in Western New York. We would get surprised spot checks at the workplace all the time. If you even had a trace of drugs in your system, you were fired.
You can make the restrictions as tight as you want, but if people aren’t enforcing the law, then what difference does it make?
The infiltration of a nation is harvesting their fruit.
Drugs or not, something isn’t right and something needs to be done immediately before another innocent person is killed by an illegal. A man was killed by an illegal when the semi he was driving veered into oncoming traffic. Prior to this he was living on Long Island where he obviously escaped the law. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/criminal-illegal-alien-kills-indiana-man-after-driving/
Something has not been right for years…tens of millions of “illegals” and those that ‘sanction’ their presence IS the ‘wrong’…