{"id":326446,"date":"2026-05-21T17:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326446\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:39:31","slug":"big-rig-driver-arrested-in-lodi-after-crash-on-highway-99-leaves-2-dead-5-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326446\/","title":{"rendered":"Big rig driver arrested in Lodi after crash on Highway 99 leaves 2 dead, 5 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: While the San Joaquin County coroner released the victim&#8217;s name, CBS Sacramento removed it from this article until all family members have been notified. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A big rig driver is accused of taking off from the scene of a crash that killed two people on Highway 99 near Lodi on Tuesday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on northbound Highway 99, south of Harney Lane, shortly before 12:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said three vehicles \u2014 a Toyota Camry, Nissan Frontier and Kia Forte \u2014 were slowing down to come to a complete stop in the far right lane. Officers said a Freightliner Cascadia was traveling behind the three vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers said the driver of the big rig, who they identified as 24-year-old Manvir Singh, failed to stop the Freighliner and crashed into the rear of the Kia Forte. This caused a chain reaction, causing the Forte to crash into the Frontier and the Frontier to crash into the Camry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two males, ages 16 and 20, in the Forte died, officers said.<\/p>\n<p>Five other people were taken to the hospital, including two people with major injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The CHP said Singh took off running from the scene of the crash. He was taken into custody nearby and booked into jail.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said he was booked on vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and hit-and-run resulting in death or injury. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/manvir-singh.png#.png\" alt=\"manvir-singh.png \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Manvir Singh was arrested in connection with a crash on Highway 99 in Lodi that left two people dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                San Joaquin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unknown if DUI was a factor in the crash. Officers said the investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was backed up for hours on Highway 99 as officers investigated and cleared the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Editor&#8217;s note: While the San Joaquin County coroner released the victim&#8217;s name, CBS Sacramento removed it from this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1825,5706,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-326446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-highway-99","tag-lodi","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326446","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=326446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}