Indianapolis: The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has taken a 25-year-old Indian man into custody after the truck he was driving caused a three-vehicle collision, killing a 64-year-old man in Indiana.
Sukhdeep Singh allegedly ran a red light, causing the fatal crash. According to ICE officials, he was not only driving wrong and cost a life, but was in Indiana illegally.
Singh was caught crossing the US border in 2018. He was a minor at that time and was released, as per a Fox News report. He was issued a commercial driver’s license in May 2025, despite being an illegal immigrant.
Reports say that the accident occurred in Hendricks County, Indiana, located just west of Indianapolis. Eye-witnesses told Fox59 News that around noon on Wednesday, Singh made a fatal mistake and slammed his semi-truck into the side of a white pickup.
“He went through the intersection and hit the electric truck that was driving through,” said a witness, Kate Breedlove, who claimed she herself narrowly missed being hit and quickly ran to check on the victim in the pickup, as reported by NDTV.
The driver of the pickup, 64-year-old Terry Schultz, died at the scene.
The tragedy comes less than two weeks after another illegal alien, driving a semi-truck, killed four innocent people in Indiana, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) noted.
“It is incredibly dangerous for illegal aliens, who often don’t know our traffic laws or even English, to be operating semi-trucks on America’s roads. These tragedies are 100 per cent preventable, and we pray for the family and victim,” DHS said in a statement to Fox News.
Singh, who was first detained in 2018, was released into the US under the 1997 Flores consent decree, which mandated that children who crossed the border illegally were to be released to a parent or adult relative rather than being detained.
This Clinton-era policy was done away with by the first Trump administration in 2019, the year after Sukhdeep crossed the border.
