TAMPA – The estranged father of a girl injured in an infamous drunk driving accident has been arrested for a second time on drunk driving charges.

Josh Moll, father of Summer Moll, was arrested in Texas.

Summer narrowly escaped a horrific, head-on car crash with her life nearly two years ago. Her mother was killed.

Investigators say Josh Moll’s first DUI charge was here in Tampa. They say he jumped bail and fled to Texas.

Moll is due in court in Travis County, Texas, on Wednesday. But there are indications he may not show up.

“I’ve heard that he is planning to flee yet again,” said a family member who asked FOX 13 to conceal their identity. “Something has to be done about this guy…he is a danger to any community he enters.”

FOX 13 reached Josh Moll by phone, but he refused comment on his legal troubles.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving representative Becky Gage says she plans to let Texas prosecutors know about Moll jumping bail here in Tampa.

“We’re obviously not going to extradite, I don’t think, on a misdemeanor charge,” Gage said. “But I would think they’d be interested in knowing that.”

Moll’s daughter Summer has no idea what’s happened to her father. Family members say Moll was never in her life, though he raced to Tampa to claim custody after hearing of the drunk driving crash that killed Summer’s mother, his estranged girlfriend.

Summer is being raised by her grandmother, Tammy Rosian. Summer still faces a number of surgeries, and hasn’t heard from Josh Moll in two years.

“Look at your daughter,” Rosian says she would say to Moll. “Look at your daughter — how can you be out there drinking and driving not once, but twice now? And it’s been a year and a half since the last one? It makes no sense to me whatsoever.”

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Tampa, Florida — Every day, Karen Cain lives with the pain of losing her only daughter. It’s a pain she knows will never go away.

“You never forget,” she said, clutching to her daughter’s nameplate necklace, “Her father will never walk her down the aisle. I’ll never have grandchildren from my daughter. My son will give them to me, but it’s different when it’s your daughter.”

Cain’s daughter Deanna was riding in her friend’s car in 2004 when they were hit by another vehicle along Armenia Avenue.

The friend, then 19-years old, survived. Deanna Cain never lived to see her 16th birthday.

The women was charged and convicted two years later for DUI Manslaughter and served about eight months in the Hillsborough County Jail.

“I thought long ago the sentence wasn’t tough enough, because I felt that she needed more help,” Cain told 10 Connects.

She recalled the one phone call she got from the 19 year old two days after she went to jail.

“She asked me if I could believe she was in jail for this blank,” said Cain who did not want to use the bad word the women used, “I said yes, I can believe in your in jail for that. It was like a mockery, like, ‘Can you believe I’m in jail for killing Deanna?’” (more…)

Tampa, FL — After a 27 year old Lakeland women crashed into a crime scene van in downtown Tampa Friday 4-16-10 she is charged with DUI.

The suspect is said to have been driving in the early morning hours when she ran a red light, smashing into a crime scene van being driven by technician Jacqueline Rojas. The crime scene van’s airbag deployed and Ms. Rojas was taken to St. Joseph’s hospital with minor injuries.

The suspect was not injured in the accident. She is said to have refused a chemical test and is charged with DUI. She is being held at Hillsborough County Jail on a $500 bond.

It’s amazing how the driver who causes the crash is always better of then the other car’s driver.

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