A 21-year-old college soccer goalkeeper is dead because Washington let a truck driver behind an 80,000-pound rig who could not read a road sign or speak to the police who arrived at the scene. This is what happens when open-border policy meets the highway — and it just cost Tobias “Toby” Forsythe his life.
Bekhzod Asrarov, 42, an Uzbek national admitted to the United States via the diversity visa lottery under the Biden administration in 2024, allegedly rammed the back of a vehicle on Interstate 71 in Madison County, Ohio, over the weekend, killing Forsythe, who played goalkeeper for the University of Massachusetts Lowell River Hawks, Fox News reports.
Asrarov held a commercial driver’s license issued by the state of Ohio. When state troopers reached the crash, sources told Fox he tried ripping the dash camera out and smashing it, then tried to destroy his three cellphones and his logging device. Troopers ultimately had to communicate with him through Google Translate — he could not speak English.
Let that sink in. A man who could not read American road signs or answer basic questions from law enforcement was legally driving a fully loaded semi-truck down an interstate highway, and when he killed someone, his first instinct was to destroy the evidence.
Forsythe, an economics major, had just joined the River Hawks in 2026 after two seasons at Ashland University and a stint at Shawnee State, where he started all 17 games in 2025. “Our entire athletics department is heartbroken by Toby’s passing,” UMass Lowell athletic director Lynn Coutts said in a statement. “Although Toby’s time as a River Hawk was cut far too short, he left a meaningful impact and will always be remembered as a cherished member of our UMass Lowell family.”
River Hawks head coach Kyle Zenoni echoed the loss. “He never looked for shortcuts and never expected anything to be given to him — he simply wanted the opportunity to earn it,” Zenoni said. “Our hearts are with Toby’s family, friends, teammates and everyone who had the privilege of knowing him.”
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy didn’t mince words either. “We cannot let truckers like Asrarov, who can’t read our road signs or speak to law enforcement, drive 80,000-pound rigs on America’s highways,” Duffy wrote on X.
The Trump administration has been racing to claw back this exact danger, intensifying its crackdown on commercial licenses for drivers who cannot demonstrate English proficiency. Border czar Tom Homan has touted more than 28,000 CDL revocations by May 1, 2026 alone. But the damage from years of lax vetting is still working its way through American highways — just last week, a Haitian national who authorities say ignored a deportation order was charged in the death of a Pennsylvania State Police trooper he struck during a commercial vehicle inspection on Interstate 81.
This is a window into what happens when a generation of immigration policy treated border enforcement and public safety as optional. Toby Forsythe didn’t get a diversity lottery ticket, a commercial license, or a second chance. He got a funeral.
Source: foxnews.com