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Earlier this month, a minivan was driving north out of St. Lucie County on the Florida Turnpike when a commercial semitruck hauling a box trailer crossed directly in front of it. The truck’s driver, Harjinder Singh, was attempting to pull off an illegal U-turn by driving across the turnpike’s northbound roads. The minivan had no time to stop, crashing into and then being crushed by Singh’s truck. The two passengers in the minivan were pronounced dead at the scene, and the driver died later that day.

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