This post was updated 11/15/24 to include new information. The article as it was first published appears below its original headline.
A truck driver who crashed into a Clark County deputy sheriff while allegedly intoxicated was formally charged this week.
9th East Prosecuting Attorney Dan Turner is charging Satnam Singh with second-degree battery and second-degree criminal mischief, both Class D felonies punishable by up to 6 years in prison. Singh is also charged with DWI, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of one year in the county jail.
The latest court documents list Singh’s address as one in Alba, Texas; initial paperwork showed him to be a resident of New York City.
Wrong-way trucker who plowed into Arkansas deputy facing multiple charges
A New York City truck driver faces a slew of criminal charges in Clark County, Arkansas, after slamming into a deputy sheriff’s vehicle while traveling the wrong way on Interstate 30, according to an Arkansas State Police indictment released Tuesday.
The indictment charges Satnam Singh, 59, with two counts of second-degree criminal mischief, second-degree battery, driving while intoxicated, failure to maintain control, reckless driving, driving the wrong way of a one way street, and failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.
On the morning of Oct. 3, 2024, Singh, driving a 2018 Peterbilt and hauling a trailer, allegedly plowed into a Chevy Tahoe occupied by Sgt. Fred Phillips. The deputy had stationed his patrol SUV on the shoulder near the eastbound 58 mile-marker after 911 callers advised dispatchers of a wrong-way tractor-trailer that apparently entered the interstate at the Gurdon exit.
Singh reportedly traveled about 5 miles in the wrong lane prior to the collision.
State Trooper Matthew Hall submitted the indictment, which alleges that Singh was observed with “an odor of intoxicants, along with bloodshot, watery eyes and slurred speech.” A portable breath test was administered at the scene of the crash, according to the indictment.
An uninjured Singh was taken into custody after the crash, which sent Phillips to Baptist Health Medical Center-Arkadelphia for unknown injuries.
Authorities would not release the results of Singh’s blood alcohol breath sample, which was collected during the booking process at the jail.
Deputy Phillips was released from the hospital on the day of the accident.
Singh posted bond on Friday. His arraignment has been set for Nov. 13.
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