Woman dies in head-on crash on South Mission Road

FALLBROOK – A 20-year-old woman, identified by the Medical Examiner's Office as Guadalupe Esmeralda Perulero, died and three other people were seriously injured in a head-on crash in Fallbrook early Feb. 4.

According to the California Highway Patrol, Perulero was in a rear passenger seat of a small 1996 Saturn sedan when the northbound Saturn drifted into oncoming southbound traffic on South Mission Road and collided with a 2007 Ford U-Haul truck near Quail Knoll Road at approximately 1 a.m.

The Saturn's driver, a 19-year-old Fallbrook man, and his three passengers were all trapped inside the...