Over the weekend, the leading news story was about Harjinder Singh, an Indian man who killed three people in Florida when he attempted an illegal U-turn on the highway in his semi truck.
The public quickly learned that Singh has been in the United States illegally since 2018, yet was somehow able to get a CDL in California to drive massive trucks across the nation.
People quickly connected Singh name to another man named Harjinder Singh who attempted to drive a semi over a small bridge in Arkansas in January 2019, collapsing it.
Despite a six-ton (12,000-pound) weight limit, the Mr. Singh in that case tried to drive over it with a truck that was 64,000 pounds heavier than the limit. The truck remained in the water for months.
In 2021, the State of Arkansas sued this Harjinder Singh, who was also registered as a CDL driver in California, along with his company, US Citylink Corp.
And yet ... believe it or not, the two Harjinder Singhs are different men.
The one who collapsed the Arkansas bridge has DOT records related to his CDL dated to 2011 and was 35 in 2019 at the time of the bridge collapse, compared to the 28-year-old Singh involved in the Florida crash last week.
Yet the statistical odds that two Indian men named Harjinder Singh were involved in trucking accidents in the American South is raising eyebrows, to say the least. It wouldn't be unusual to discover, for example, that a man named Harjinder Singh was arrested for concealing an illegal pistol on his person in a village near the Indian city of Jammu.
It would be unusual if two men named "Jack Smith" had been involved in major truck accidents in India in the span of several years.
It might make people wonder how many "Jack Smiths" are roaming around India without any understanding of the language or traffic laws, and who is letting so many "Jack Smiths" get licenses to drive heavy machinery.
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