Yuba City truck driver sentenced in Southern California big rig crash that killed 3
A Yuba City truck driver convicted in a Southern California freeway crash that killed three people was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison, according to San Bernardino County court records.
Jashanpreet Singh pleaded guilty in June to three counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence in relation to an October crash on Interstate 10 in Ontario. Singh, who was operating a Freightliner tractor-trailer, slammed into slowed traffic on the highway, triggering a collision with seven other vehicles.
Three people died at the scene and at least four others were taken to hospitals with minor to major injuries.
Singh was sentenced in San Bernardino Superior Court to a total of four years and eight months — a term of two years for one count of vehicular manslaughter and 16 months each for the other two, to be served consecutively.
One felony charge of reckless driving causing great bodily injury was dismissed in this week’s sentencing, as well as two enhancements of great bodily injury on a person. He also was originally charged with driving under the influence, but that count was removed in an amended complaint filed by San Bernardino County prosecutors in early November.
Singh has been in custody since his arrest last year. He was 21 years old when he was arrested.
Singh had entered the country illegally in 2022 through Mexico, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which filed an immigration detainer last October asking local authorities to hold Singh in custody for up to 48 hours beyond when he would ordinarily be released in order to allow Homeland Security to take him into federal custody.
San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson in a statement shortly after Singh’s arrest stated that Singh “should have never been in California at all,” The Sacramento Bee reported at the time.
