Under Florida law, vehicular homicide is a second-degree felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
A truck driver accused of causing a fatal three-person crash in Florida was denied bond on Saturday and faces deportation proceedings.
Harjinder Singh, a 28-year-old a native of India, was charged with three counts of vehicular homicide this week after allegedly making an illegal U-turn that resulted in a collision with a minivan on a highway approximately 50 miles north of West Palm Beach.The Context
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) confirmed Singh was arrested after the collision near Fort Pierce on the Florida Turnpike on August 12 after he tried to turn his tractor-trailer through an « unauthorized location. »
A black Chrysler Town & Country minivan drove head-on into the tractor-trailer as it was making the U-turn, video of the incident taken from the cab of the truck shows. Two passengers, a 37-year-old woman from Pompano Beach and a 54-year-old man from Miami, died at the scene. The driver, a 30-year-old man from Florida City, later died at a hospital, FLHSMV officials told Newsweek.
Harneet Singh, the driver’s brother, was a passenger in the vehicle driven by his brother during the fatal crash, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official said in a statement. Both were uninjured in the accident.Why It Matters
Under Florida law, vehicular homicide is a second-degree felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
California’s Assembly Bill 60 (AB 60), enacted in 2015, allows undocumented immigrants to apply for a driver’s license if they can provide proof of identity and California residency.
