Indian Truck Driver Sukhdeep Singh Taken Into ICE Custody After Fatal Indiana Crash

An Indian national who entered the United States illegally has been taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody following a fatal crash in Hendricks County, Indiana that claimed the life of a 64-year-old local man.​

Sukhdeep Singh, 25, was driving a Freightliner semi-truck on February 18 when he ran a red light at a busy intersection west of Indianapolis, slamming into a Chevrolet pickup driven by Terry Schultz. The force of the collision sent Schultz's truck careening across a median into a third vehicle. Schultz was pronounced dead at the scene.

What has drawn particular scrutiny is how Singh obtained a valid commercial driver's licence in May 2025 — despite his undocumented immigration status — raising serious questions about gaps in the CDL vetting process that allowed an illegal immigrant to legally operate a 40-ton semi-truck on American roads.

The Department of Homeland Security condemned the tragedy, stating: "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."​

The crash comes just two weeks after Bekzhan Beishekeev, an undocumented immigrant from Kazakhstan, allegedly killed four people in a separate Indiana trucking accident, reigniting a fierce national debate over immigration enforcement and commercial driver's licence standards.