A reckless, illegal maneuver made by a semi-truck driver on the Florida Turnpike in St. Lucie County resulted in the deaths of three individuals.

Horrifying footage shows the moment a minivan struck the tractor-trailer as it made the turn.

All three people in the van died from the crash, and the truck driver, an illegal migrant, faces vehicular homicide charges.

Footage below:

More from the New York Post:

The roadway horror happened around 3 p.m. Tuesday on the Florida Turnpike near Fort Pierce when the tractor-trailer driven by suspect Harjinder Singh made a hard left turn across the highway and attempted to cross the median through an “official use only” pass, authorities said.

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The truck’s trailer blocked all of oncoming traffic’s lanes as it nosed over the median — with footage from inside its cab showing a black minivan driving toward it with no time to stop and nowhere to turn to avoid a collision.

Within seconds, the minivan slammed into the trailer at full speed and became wedged underneath.

Photos from the wreck showed the minivan obliterated — with its contents strewn across the highway after apparently bursting from the van’s side, while the roof was shorn back and crumpled over the trunk in a twisted mess of metal.

Inside the truck’s cab, Singh appeared completely unmoved by the violence unfolding on the highway.

He looked out the cab window and watched as the minivan flew down the highway into the trailer, and when it collided and the truck was sent shuddering, his face remained unchanged as he calmly put his vehicle into park and turned the engine off.

“State Troopers obtained a criminal arrest warrant for the driver, Harjinder Singh, for three (3) counts of vehicular homicide. During the course of this criminal investigation and with the assistance of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), State Troopers determined that Harjinder Singh entered the United States illegally, having crossed the Mexico border in 2018,” a release from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) read.

“The Defendant then obtained a Commercial Driver’s License in the state of California. Under the federal authority delegated by ICE to FHP State Troopers through 287 (g) program, State Troopers issued an ICE detainer,” it continued.

A closer look:

Treasure Coast News added further info:

The crash occurred just before 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 12, near the turnpike’s 171-mile marker near the northern border of St. Lucie County. Singh was traveling north in a 2024 International tractor-trailer when he attempted a U-turn in an “official use only” area of the highway, FHP said in an Aug. 13 report about the crash.

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As he crossed over the northbound travel lanes to make his turn, a 2015 Chrysler Town & Country minivan also traveling north on the turnpike was unable to avoid hitting the truck and became wedged under the left side of the trailer, FHP said.

Riding in the van were a 54-year-old man from Miami, a 37-year-old woman from Pompano Beach, and a 30-year-old man from Florida City. Two of them were pronounced dead at the scene, while the driver was taken to Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce, where he died that evening.

FHP did not disclose the names of the three crash victims. Singh and his two passengers, California men ages 25 and 28, were not injured.

 

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