(FOX40.COM) — Florida’s top prosecutor has filed a lawsuit against Washington and California after a truck driver arrested in Stockton was accused of causing a fatal crash in Florida in August.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier stated the two states are not complying with federal immigration laws and are failing to follow federal safety regulations regarding commercial driver’s licenses.
According to Uthmeier, a CDL is needed to allow drivers to operate 18-wheelers, which is what he argues Harjinder Singh, 28, was licensed with when the crash took the lives of three people.
Below is the filing for the lawsuit.
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The lawsuit alleges that California and Washington failed to follow regulations, allowing immigrants without adequate training to operate commercial motor vehicles and putting the public at risk.
Uthmeier stated California’s failure to act led to the crash involving Singh, who is accused of killing three people while making an illegal U-turn in a semi-truck after there were multiple signs advising against making that U-turn.
In August, Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins landed at the Stockton Metropolitan Airport to personally escort Singh back to Florida to face charges in a deadly crash.
Authorities said Singh was charged with three counts of vehicular homicide at a San Joaquin County courtroom.
“Three lives were lost because he got a license when he shouldn’t have. Those people died and then he fled back to California,” said Collins. “We’re going to make sure this thug is brought to justice and faces it in Florida.”
For Washington, Uthmeier in the lawsuit references a case where the state gave an immigrant without papers a license after they failed the CDL exam 13 times.
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