The truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida is seen in a police video recorded in July interacting and understanding English.

Harjinder Singh made the illegal turn earlier this month from northbound lanes of Florida’s Turnpike about 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of West Palm Beach, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. A minivan was unable to avoid the truck’s trailer, which was blocking the northbound lanes.

Two passengers in the minivan died at the scene and the driver died at a hospital. Singh and a passenger in his truck were not injured.

He is being held without bond after being charged with three state counts of vehicular homicide and immigration violations.

The Department of Homeland Security has said Singh, a native of India, was in the country illegally. So Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he should not have been granted a commercial driver's licenses by Washington and California. He said New Mexico should have pulled Singh off the road for not speaking English after he was pulled over in July because he later failed a test given by DOT investigators after the Florida crash.

But the governor's office in New Mexico said a video of the police stop of Singh makes it clear that he understands English.

Florida authorities have said Singh entered illegally from Mexico in 2018. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that Singh should have never received the license.