Indian-origin trucker crash: Florida moves Supreme Court over immigrant CDLs

Times of IndiaCenter-RightEN 2 min read 100% complete by TOI WORLD DESKOctober 25, 2025 at 01:59 PM

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A 28-year-old Indian-origin truck driver, Harjinder Singh, has been accused of causing a deadly crash in Florida after failing his commercial driver's licence test ten times before obtaining it. Singh, who entered the US illegally in 2018, holds a valid California CDL and was involved in a fatal crash on Florida's Turnpike that killed three people. The incident has reignited a national debate over the issuing of CDLs to undocumented immigrants. Florida has petitioned the US Supreme Court to bar states like California from issuing CDLs to non-US citizens or permanent residents, citing concerns about public safety. Two other Indian-origin drivers have been involved in separate crashes in California that killed three people each, highlighting a "disturbing pattern" of unqualified, undocumented drivers obtaining commercial licences.

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