Drug use leads to second crash in two weeks

For the second time in two weeks, an accident was caused on a Fallbrook roadway due to a driver being under the influence of drugs.

On Wednesday, December 20, at approximately 3:55 p.m., Nicholas Adam Young, 22, of Vista was driving a 2001 Nissan Sentra northbound on South Mission Road, north of Heller’s Bend, when he realized the vehicle ahead of him had stopped to make a turn. Young, who California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers said was driving under the influence of marijuana, attempted to stop but in the process of braking lost control of his vehicle. The vehicle rolled over in the northbo...