San Diego DUI lawyer news

A San Diego DUI man faces a felony San Diego DUI / Drunk Driving charge in connection with a North County traffic accident that injured him and five other people over the weekend, San Diego DUI attorneys learned Monday.

The head-on San Diego DUI crash occurred about 1:30 p.m. Sunday when a westbound 1994 Ford Mustang veered across solid double yellow lines on East Mission Road in Fallbrook and into the path of an oncoming 1990 Ford Aerostar near Valentine Lane, according to San Diego DUI lawyers.

Medics airlifted the driver of the Mustang, Matthew Kotas, 31, and the other motorist, 45-year-old Salvador Perez of Fallbrook, to Palomar Hospital in Escondido for treatment of serious injuries, San Diego DUI attorneys said.

Perez's 17-year-old daughter, Jessica, suffered a facial laceration and was taken to Children's Hospital in San Diego. His 46-year-old wife, Adalina, 11-year-old son, Leopoldo, and 10-year-old daughter, Maribel, were treated for complaints of pain to their extremities, San Diego DUI lawyers said.

Officers found marijuana and a prescription-medication bottle in Kotas' car, San Diego DUI attorneys hear.

Kotas will be charged with felony San Diego DUI and was released into the care of the staff of Palomar Hospital, San Diego DUI lawyers are told.