{"id":19538,"date":"2025-10-23T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/19538\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:42:10","slug":"northern-california-truck-driver-identified-in-10-freeway-crash-that-killed-3-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/19538\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern California truck driver identified in 10 Freeway crash that killed 3 \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials have released the name of the semi-truck driver arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailybulletin.com\/2025\/10\/21\/3-dead-several-injured-in-8-vehicle-crash-involving-big-rigs-on-10-freeway-in-ontario\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">eight-vehicle crash involving multiple big rigs<\/a> killed three people and injured several others Tuesday, Oct. 21, on the 10 Freeway in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Jashanpreet Singh, 21, of Yuba City, was booked on suspicion of felony DUI and gross vehicular manslaughter, according to the California Highway Patrol Officer Rodrigo Jimenez said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred around 1:10 p.m. on the westbound 10 Freeway just west of the 15 Freeway. Investigators said Singh, driving a Freightliner semi-truck, failed to stop as traffic slowed, triggering a chain-reaction collision involving four commercial big rigs and four other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the victims were inside a vehicle that became engulfed in flames following the crash, Jimenez said. The third victim, a 54-year-old Upland man, was driving a pickup truck, authorities said. The names of the victims have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>Four more people were transported to hospitals, including two with major injuries, Jimenez said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the crash, fuel from the Freightliner spilled onto the dirt shoulder, resulting in a hazardous-materials incident, the CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>A SigAlert closed all westbound lanes of the 10 west of the 15 for several hours Tuesday afternoon and evening as investigators and cleanup crews worked the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials have released the name of the semi-truck driver arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4846,7,9,8,723,138,1338,100,16217],"class_list":{"0":"post-19538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-accidents","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-morning-wire","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-traffic-fatalities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}