Intoxicated driver causes injuries in Stage Coach Lane pileup

A man driving under the influence caused a three-car collision on South Stage Coach Lane midmorning Tuesday, September 22.

At approximately 9:45 a.m., Michael Villa, a 23-year-old from Murrieta, was driving a 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt behind Young Kwong, a 48-year-old Fallbrook man, who was driving a 2004 Lexus LS430.

Both drivers had slowed down in order to let an unidentified vehicle ahead of them make a left turn when Scott Nelson, a 42-year-old Fallbrook resident driving a 1991 BMW 735i, slammed into Villa’s vehicle, which then rear-ended Kwong’s vehicle.

According to a report by the Californi...