ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An Orlando man arrested via warrant is accused of leaving the scene of a crash in Orange County that left one victim dead and another seriously injured in 2022.
Tyler Sutherland, 28, was arrested Thursday and faces charges of vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of a crash with injuries following his alleged involvement in a wreck on Narcoossee Road in Lake Nona in February 2022. A 48-year-old Apopka man was seriously injured and 35-year-old Nathaniel Young, Jr., of Ocoee, was killed in the crash. Both were identified as employees of Flash-Rite.
According to an FHP crash report, Sutherland — identified as the driver of a car that failed to travel within the southbound traffic shift of a construction area and struck at least one other vehicle before hitting the two victims, who were both standing near construction trucks — ran into a nearby marsh after the crash and was detained by two Florida agriculture officers who were working off-duty for John Hall Construction.
A man in a construction truck suffered minor injuries in the wreck, troopers said, and a woman who was driving a pickup truck northbound also suffered minor injuries because Sutherland’s car went on to strike her vehicle after it hit the two victims who were on foot.
“We are devastated. Our condolences go out to his wife and child,” Flash-Rite owner Lisa Williams said of Young in 2022.
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Sutherland was arrested Thursday afternoon at his job along Sea Harbor Drive and was being held without bond at the Orange County Jail at the time of this report, records show.
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