Unrelated Video Of Truck Driver Cooking Curry NOT Dash Cam Of ‘Illegal Immigrant’ Before Fatal California I-10 Crash

Is this real dash cam video showing a truck driver cooking curry at 90 mph just before crashing into other vehicles and killing three people on California’s I-10? No, that’s not true: The California Highway Patrol, which investigated the accident and released the original dash cam video, had not seen the “cam 2” version, according to a CHP spokesman. The highway and landscape in the original video also does not match the second video, the spokesman said.

The claim appeared in a video (archived here) posted on X on October 22, 2025, with a caption that read:

🚨WILD FOOTAGE: A second dash cam video reveals illegal immigrant truck driver cooking curry at 90 mph before killing 3 in California highway crash

This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:

The X post opens with a 23-second clip of a bearded male driver wearing a turban stirring a pan of curry on a hotplate, while also steering a truck as it moved down a multi-lane highway. This is followed by the dash cam video released by CHP that shows the chain reaction wreck that killed three people on I-10 in San Bernardino on October 22, 2025. The upper-right corner includes the mugshot of Jashanpreet Singh, the 21-year-old man investigators charged with vehicle manslaughter and driving under the influence of drugs.

Lt. Matt Gutierrez, a CHP spokesman, viewed the video at Lead Stories’ request and said it was not released by the agency. He also said there were obvious reasons to conclude the video was not related to the I-10 crash:

I can tell you none of our staff have seen that video before you sent it to me. I am unable to verify its authenticity, but the freeway in the background is not the correct freeway that the crash was on.

The freeway seen in the first segment has a different type of stripe and asphalt color than in the second. The landscape along the highway is also different.

Lead Stories has not been able to identify the origins of the first clip in the video, but a tool used to detect content created by artificial intelligence did not conclude it was AI-generated.