Indian truck driver sentenced to 5 years in prison for causing multiple Truck accidents
Singh, who was 21 at the time of the accident, pleaded guilty last June to three counts of causing death by vehicle due to gross negligence. He was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON:- Jashanpreet Singh, an Indian truck driver involved in a major vehicle accident in the US, has been sentenced to five years in prison. Singh, who was 21 at the time of the crash, pleaded guilty last June to three counts of vehicular manslaughter due to gross negligence.
A 22-year-old truck driver of Indian origin—who was in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant—has been sentenced to nearly five years in state prison for causing a crash involving eight vehicles on an Ontario, California freeway. The accident, which occurred on a San Bernardino County freeway last October, resulted in three deaths and four injuries; Jashanpreet Singh caused the crash by failing to brake in time as traffic slowed down.
The accident was captured on a dashcam installed in Singh’s ‘Freightliner tractor-trailer’ (a large truck). The video shows him driving at high speed and crashing into a small white SUV in the middle lane of the freeway. Singh’s truck continued forward, striking several other vehicles—including another truck. It then crossed two lanes and crashed into another truck that was already stopped on the right shoulder of the freeway due to a breakdown.
Singh, who was 21 at the time of the accident, pleaded guilty last June to three counts of causing death by vehicle due to gross negligence. He was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison on Tuesday.
