Horrifying video shows 10 Freeway crash that killed 3; driver was allegedly intoxicated
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- A 21-year-old big-rig driver suspected of causing a fiery 10 Freeway crash that killed three people and injured four has been identified.
- Jashanpreet Singh of Yuba City, Calif., allegedly failed to brake and is suspected of driving under the influence of drugs.
A day after a fiery crash that killed three people and injured several others on the 10 Freeway in Ontario, law enforcement officials identified the truck driver accused of causing the crash.
Jashanpreet Singh, 21, was arrested by California Highway Patrol officers at the site of the crash Tuesday afternoon, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department inmate log.
He was booked on a felony charge of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and a felony charge of driving under the influence of drugs causing injury, according to the log.
On Thursday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials issued an arrest detainer — a request to hold a person for potential deportation — for Singh, according to a Department of Homeland Security statement. The statement claimed that Singh first entered the U.S. in 2022 through the southern border and was an undocumented immigrant from India.
In the collision, which took place around 1:10 p.m. Tuesday, a big rig driver failed to hit his brakes as traffic was slowing, resulting in an eight-vehicle pileup, according to a CHP spokesperson.
Dashboard camera video obtained by ABC7 shows the shocking moment the truck slams into the car in front of it and continues to plow forward through several other passenger cars before slamming into a truck.
Flames can be seen at the edge of the camera as one of the passenger cars ignites.
Three people were killed and four were injured, and the crash resulted in a multilane closure that snarled rush-hour traffic, authorities said.
At least three people have been killed in a fiery eight-vehicle collision on the 10 Freeway, resulting in a closure that snarled rush-hour traffic in Ontario, authorities said.
The collision took place as traffic was slowing down on the westbound 10 Freeway near the 15 Freeway interchange, according to Officer Joe Garcia, a CHP spokesperson.
The crash involved four semitrucks and four passenger cars, one of which was engulfed in flames. Three people were pronounced dead at the scene and four were transported to hospitals for treatment, Garcia said.
Among those killed was former Pomona High School assistant basketball coach Clarence Nelson and his wife, Lisa, according to reporting by KTLA. The high school posted a photo of the coach with the words “RIP Coach Nelson and his wife.”
By Wednesday night, all but one of the four people hospitalized in the crash — including Singh — had been released from the hospital, said Rodrigo Jimenez, a CHP spokesperson.
Singh was being held without bail while awaiting his initial hearing, which is scheduled for Thursday.
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