The semi-truck driver who pleaded guilty to causing a chain-reaction crash that killed three people last year in Ontario, California, was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison Tuesday.

Dramatic dashcam video showed the big rig, driven by Jashanpreet Singh of Yuba City, who was 21 at the time, plowing into stopped vehicles on the westbound 10 Freeway on Oct. 22.

“The westbound traffic came to either a slow or a stop, and the Freightliner commercial vehicle did not stop, which caused a chain-reaction crash,” CHP spokesperson Rodrigo Jimenez said after the crash.

Court records show Singh pleaded guilty in June to three counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Former Pomona High School assistant basketball coach Clarence Nelson and his wife Lisa Nelson were among the victims of the crash. The high school posted a photo of the coach with the words “RIP Coach Nelson and his wife.”

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