A man who drove under the influence, fled from police, and caused the deaths of a woman and her young daughter in a North County freeway crash pleaded guilty Tuesday to DUI causing injury and evading an officer causing injury or death.

Erick Arambula, 25, is expected to be sentenced next month in Vista Superior Court to 12 years in state prison for the crash that killed 29-year-old Courteney Taylor and her 4-year-old daughter Amaya Taylor on April 23, 2023.

Prosecutors say Arambula fled from state Fish and Wildlife officers on Old Highway 395 in Fallbrook just prior to the fatal crash.

Shortly after police terminated the high speed pursuit, Arambula’s pickup veered off the highway and onto southbound lanes of Interstate 15, where it crashed head-on into Taylor’s car, prosecutors said.

Arambula remains in jail without bail.

A GoFundMe page created last year by Taylor’s family read, “Everyone who has ever met Courteney has known her as a living angel. Amaya was our family’s guiding light.”