3 Dead After Illegal Truck U-Turn in Florida

From California to Florida, untrained truck drivers and recycled USDOT numbers are leaving bodies on America's highways.

UPDATE: August 16, 2025 @ 2257

The Florida Highway Patrol has now confirmed that the driver, Harjinder Singh, has been arrested and charged with three counts of vehicular homicide.

According to investigators, Singh entered the U.S. illegally in 2018 and later obtained a California Commercial Driver’s License (CDL). With assistance from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), troopers verified his immigration status and issued an immigration detainer under the federal 287(g) program.

Singh remains in custody and will no longer be able to operate commercial vehicles in the U.S. Once state charges are resolved, he will be turned over to federal authorities for deportation.

This case underscores what I’ve been documenting for months: structural gaps in licensing and enforcement that allow unqualified or illegally-present drivers to get behind the wheel of 80,000-pound trucks. The cost is measured in innocent lives lost.