Claims Against State Filed in Crash Fatal to 2 : Traffic: Daughters of dead couple and friends say Dr. Ronald Joseph Allen should not have been licensed for driving or practicing medicine.

A Laguna Beach doctor who collided head-on with a car carrying a Mission Viejo family, killing both parents, should not have possessed a driver’s license nor a medical license, according to claims against the state filed by the family’s daughters and other survivors of the crash.

Dr. Ronald Joseph Allen, 31, crashed into the Minzey family as they returned from a softball game on July 11, 1993. The parents, Noreen and Mark, were killed instantly, and one daughter was critically injured.

Allen was later charged with second-degree murder and driving under the influence of both drugs and alcohol.

On Dec. 29, the Minzeys’ daughters, Karie, 11, and Shelbie Minzey, 15, filed a $30-million claim with the state charging that both the California Department of Motor Vehicles and the Medical Board of California should have acted sooner in revoking Allen’s license to drive and to practice medicine, said their attorney, Daniel W. Johnson.

Two friends of the Minzeys, sisters Danielle Rodriguez, 12, and Jacqueline Rodriguez, 24, also survived the accident and have filed similar claims with the state, according to the offices of their attorney, Garry Moorhead.

The Rodriguezes, who were in the Minzey car, were treated and released from UCI Medical Center the day of the accident.

Allen had been arrested in June on suspicion of public intoxication and resisting arrest. As a result, his driver’s license had been revoked. But 10 days later, he got a temporary license from the DMV. To get it, authorities allege, he failed to disclose that his Illinois driver’s license had been revoked.

Johnson also alleged that the DMV “issued a temporary license to a person who had already had his license revoked by court order. The DMV violated the court order.”

But a DMV spokesman said Allen was driving with an invalid license.

“I don’t think that can be substantiated with the evidence at hand,” DMV spokesman Bill Madison said. Allen did not have “driving privileges in the state of California at the time of the accident.”

Allen’s medical license was temporarily suspended in August.

But Johnson said that Allen’s medical license had allowed him to obtain the amphetamines he had allegedly taken on the day of the fatal accident.

Medical Board spokesperson Candis Cohen, who saw the Rodriguezes’ claim Friday, said: “The Medical Board rejects the claim that it is in any way responsible for the injuries of the Rodriguez sisters. Dr. Allen chose to ingest drugs and alcohol and then drive. We dispute the idea that any earlier action against his medical license would have prevented this tragedy, which is solely his responsibility.”

Allen awaits trial in Orange County Jail. He faces up to life in prison if convicted.