Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has assigned newly appointed Lt. Gov. Jay Collins to travel to California to extradite an illegal alien who is accused of causing a crash last week on the Florida Turnpike near Fort Pierce that killed three people.

According to officials, Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant, attempted a U-turn on Aug. 12 in a highway zone marked “official use only,” triggering a collision in which a minivan struck his semitruck.

All three minivan passengers, a 30-year-old man from Florida City, a 37-year-old woman from Pompano Beach, and a 54-year-old man from Miami, were pronounced dead at the scene, officials said. After the crash, Singh flew back to California from Florida.

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