FORT PIERCE, Fla. (WFLA) — A truck driver has been charged with vehicular homicide after a crash in Fort Pierce that killed three people.
On Tuesday, August 12, Harjinder Singh was driving a semi-truck on the Florida Turnpike in St. Lucie County, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said.
NBC affiliate WPTV reported that the semi-truck was in the right lane and a Chrysler minivan was in the left lane when the truck tried to make a U-turn at a turnaround path. The path had a no U-turn sign posted, which said "official use only." Similar paths can be found across the state and are meant to be used only by emergency vehicles.
When the truck attempted the turn, it crossed directly in the path of the minivan, which was unable to slow down in time and became wedged unde