A semitruck driver, Jashanpreet Singh, has pleaded not guilty to multiple criminal counts after being charged in a deadly chain-reaction crash on the 10 Freeway in Ontario.
Singh obtained his commercial driver's license through state and federal processes in place at the time. However, these processes changed on a federal level on September 26, just over a month before the crash.
Through his public defender and with an interpreter, Singh pleaded not guilty to counts including gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving under the combined influence of alcohol and drugs.
He pleaded not guilty to the multiple criminal counts against him.
Author's summary: Semitruck driver pleads not guilty.