Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced an investigation after a Florida Turnpike crash on Aug. 12 in which a minivan struck a semi-truck during an illegal U-turn, killing three people. Harjinder Singh, the semi-truck driver, was arrested on vehicular manslaughter charges. Preliminary findings indicate Washington State improperly issued Singh a full-term CDL, Singh lacks English proficiency and has trouble identifying road signs, and the FMCSA has opened probes into Singh and White Hawk Carrier, Inc. Duffy blamed non-enforcement and immigration policies for unsafe licensing practices and pledged to hold states and carriers accountable.
If states had followed the rules, this driver would never have been behind the wheel and three precious lives would still be with us. This crash was a preventable tragedy directly caused by reckless decisions and compounded by despicable failures. Non-enforcement and radical immigration policies have turned the trucking industry into a lawless frontier, resulting in unqualified foreign drivers improperly acquiring licenses to operate 40-ton vehicles.
Duffy vowed in his statement that he and President Donald Trump will bring safety back to the roads, blasting radical immigration policies and non-enforcement in the trucking industry. We will use every tool at our disposal to hold these states and bad actors accountable. President Trump and I will restore safety to our roads, he wrote. The families of the deceased deserve justice. This cannot happen again.
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