Authorities detained a truck driver on Wednesday, accusing him of running a red light and causing a deadly accident in Indiana. According to several federal law enforcement sources, the driver is an undocumented immigrant from India, as reported by Fox News.
The driver, Singh Sukhdeep, was issued his commercial driver’s license in May 2025. He had initially entered the U.S. in 2018 as a minor and was apprehended at the border but subsequently released.
Sukhdeep is currently being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
A commercial driver’s license belonging to Singh Sukhdeep, the undocumented immigrant from India, who is facing charges for a fatal accident involving an Indiana resident in February 2025. (Photo acquired by Fox News)
The incident took place in Hendricks County, Indiana, just to the west of Indianapolis.
According to KXIN, which referenced several eyewitness accounts, a Freightliner semi-truck, towing a trailer, allegedly ran a red light. It collided with a Chevrolet pickup truck, which was then pushed across a median and hit another vehicle.
The driver of the Chevrolet truck, 64-year-old Terry Schultz, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Singh Sukhdeep is led away in handcuffs from the scene of a crash that killed a man in Indiana on Feb. 18, 2026. (Credit: WXIN)
“This tragedy comes less than two weeks after another illegal alien driving a semi truck killed four innocent people in Indiana,” DHS told Fox News. “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% preventable and we pray for the family and victim.”
DHS explained that Sukhdeep was released into the U.S. under the 1997 Flores consent decree, which stemmed from the 1993 Supreme Court case Reno v. Flores, where civil liberties and immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of illegal alien children detained in Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) custody. INS later became U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
A destroyed Chevrolet truck after a crash in Indiana involving illegal alien semi-truck driver Singh Sukhdeep, taken on Feb. 18, 2026. (Credit: WXIN)
The result of the decree was that children who crossed the border illegally were to be released to a parent or adult relative, rather than being detained.
The Trump administration moved to abolish the Clinton-era policy in 2019, the year after Sukhdeep crossed the border.
The crash comes about two weeks after Bekzhan Beishekeev, an illegal alien truck driver from Kazakhstan, allegedly killed four people in another crash in Indiana. He entered the U.S. in 2023 using the Biden-era CBP One app, and was released into the country. He was later issued a CDL in Pennsylvania.
A photo of Singh Sukhdeep in DHS custody, provided to Fox on Feb. 19, 2026. (Courtesy of DHS)
In another high profile case from last August, an Indian illegal alien Harjinder Singh, who was issued a CDL in California, allegedly made an illegal U-turn, jackknifing his truck and causing a crash that killed three people. He was charged with three counts of vehicular homicide.
The DOT said Singh failed an English Language Proficiency test, providing correct responses to just 2 of 12 verbal questions and only accurately identifying 1 of 4 highway traffic signs.
