{"id":398579,"date":"2026-07-14T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398579\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:48:08","slug":"california-semi-truck-driver-sentenced-to-over-4-years-for-deaths-of-3-people-on-ontario-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398579\/","title":{"rendered":"California semi-truck driver sentenced to over 4 years for deaths of 3 people on Ontario highway"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Yuba City semi-truck driver was sentenced to four years and eight months for the highway deaths of three people last year, as his truck crashed into another vehicle in Ontario, leading to a deadly eight-vehicle pileup. <\/p>\n

Jashanpreet Singh pled guilty <\/a>to three felony counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence for the Oct. 2025 incident. <\/p>\n

Singh was arrested at the scene under suspicion of DUI, but toxicology reports came back negative <\/a>for drugs or alcohol. Prosecutors said eyewitness and dashcam footage showed Singh’s semi-truck traveling at a high rate of speed into stopped traffic on the I-10 Freeway in Ontario.<\/p>\n

A California Highway Patrol investigation found that Singh failed to stop his truck before crashing into the back of another vehicle, causing a violent chain reaction crash that killed three people and injured four.<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security claims <\/a>Singh is an undocumented immigrant who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in 2022 as an Indian national.\u00a0<\/p>\n

California transportation officials dispute those claims and say the federal government approved his Employment Authorization Documents, which allowed him to obtain a REAL ID confirming his legal status. State officials say that his legal employment was extended from April 24, 2025, to Oct. 16, 2026, then again to Aug. 18, 2030. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Yuba City semi-truck driver was sentenced to four years and eight months for the highway deaths of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-398579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398579","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=398579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}