A California truck driver has been sentenced to four years and eight months in state prison after pleading guilty to causing a deadly multi-vehicle crash on Interstate 10 that killed three people and injured four others.
Jashanpreet Singh, 21, of Yuba City, California, received his sentence on Tuesday after pleading guilty in June to three felony counts of gross vehicular manslaughter related to the Oct. 21, 2025, collision on westbound Interstate 10 near the Interstate 15 interchange in Ontario, California.
According to investigators with the California Highway Patrol, Singh failed to slow down as traffic ahead had come to a stop. His semi-truck crashed into the back of another vehicle, triggering a chain-reaction collision involving eight vehicles, including four tractor-trailers and four passenger cars.
Investigators watched dashcam video of the truck speeding toward the stopped traffic before plowing into it. The crash caused one of the vehicles involved to catch fire.
Three people were killed at the scene and four others were hurt in the collision.
Singh was initially held on suspicion of drunk driving, but prosecutors dropped the charge after toxicology tests showed no alcohol or drugs in his system. He later pleaded guilty to the vehicular manslaughter charges.
When determining the sentence, the court considered several mitigating factors, including Singh’s eligibility under California’s youth offender provisions, his lack of any prior criminal record and the fact that the collision was not deemed intentional. Those considerations resulted in a prison sentence of four years and eight months.
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Singh entered the United States through the southern border in 2022 as an Indian national and was living in the country without legal status. Immigration authorities filed a detainer request shortly after the crash, seeking to take custody of him for possible deportation proceedings once his criminal sentence has been addressed.
