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Updated: Tuesday, 17 Aug 2010, 5:52 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 17 Aug 2010, 5:38 PM EDT

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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