- November 13, 2024
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A 24-year-old man who has been repeatedly charged with driving on a suspended license turned himself in to Sheriff's Office deputies July 5 on a warrant for DUI homicide.
The man, Bunnell resident Tyler Wayne Dutton, was at the wheel of a white 2008 Toyota Tacoma on Oct. 27, 2015 during a U.S. 1 crash that killed his passenger, 25-year-old Jordan Rineer.
Dutton had been driving north on U.S. 1 north of the road's intersection with Old Dixie highway in San Mateo at about 1:51 a.m. when the pickup left the roadway, according to a Florida Highway Patrol report. The pickup traveled onto the grass median, crossed the southbound lanes of U.S. 1 and overturned several times, ejecting Rineer through the right passenger window before coming to rest in a watery ditch.
Rineer died at the scene of the crash. Dutton was hospitalized at Florida Hospital Flagler with serious injuries.
Law enforcement authorities performed a "retrograde extrapolation calculation" to determine how much alcohol Dutton would have had in his system at the time of the crash. The results showed that his blood alcohol levels would have been between .11 and .18 at the time of the crash, according to his arrest affidavit. The legal limit is .08.
Dutton was arrested six times between 2009 and 2014 in Flagler County on charges of driving without a driver's license or on a suspended license.
