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On October 21, 2025, a Freightliner semi barreled into stopped traffic on the westbound 10 Freeway in Ontario, California, setting off a fiery, eight-vehicle chain-reaction that left three people dead and several others wounded. Local prosecutors say dashcam and eyewitness footage show the big rig plowing into stopped cars at high speed, turning a routine commute into a scene of horror for hardworking families.
The driver, identified as 21-year-old Jashanpreet Singh, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of driving under the influence and has been charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. Video released by investigators shows the truck failing to brake and barreling into a white SUV before engulfing other vehicles in flames — the kind of preventable carnage that demands answers, not excuses.
Federal authorities have confirmed an immigration detainer has been placed on Singh and have said he entered the country in recent years, sparking a predictable but necessary debate about state and federal failures to secure our roads and borders. California officials pushed back, pointing to federal work authorization paperwork, while Washington and transportation regulators have been trading blame over how noncitizens obtain commercial licenses. Americans deserve a clear, consistent system that protects lives before politics.
Families are grieving. Reports say among the victims were a beloved community coach and his wife, people who spent their lives serving kids and neighbors before being crushed by negligence and policy failures. We should mourn those lives and demand the fullest measure of justice — not politicized half-measures or bureaucratic finger-pointing.
This tragedy is not an isolated accident; federal officials have pointed to a pattern of dangerous driving incidents involving drivers who obtained commercial privileges under disputed circumstances, and the administration’s recent changes to CDL eligibility only underscore how messy and perilous our system has become. If California and Washington want to play games with residency rules and licensing, they must also accept responsibility when those policy choices cost American lives.
Hardworking Americans are tired of being told to accept these tragedies as inevitabilities. Prosecutors have filed serious charges, and law enforcement should pursue every avenue to hold the responsible party accountable while lawmakers fix the loopholes that let this happen. It’s time for decisive border enforcement, real accountability for states that enable dangerous practices, and justice for the victims whose lives were stolen on a California freeway.
