Brailyn German Reinoso was killed when his sedan was hit by Daniel Selby's Dodge Ram in 2023.
A Lower Gwynedd Township accident in 2023 resulted recently in a Bucks County man's prison sentence. A man was given 7 to 14 years in state prison after pleading guilty to vehicular homicide while DUI, DUI, recklessly endangering another person, and driving under suspension in the Feb. 10 , 2023 crash that killed a man whose car was on the shoulder of southbound Route 309.
Daniel Joseph Selby, 33, of the 1100 block of Swamp Road, Fountainville, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court for his role in the crash that claimed the life of Brailyn German Reinoso, per court documents.
According to The Mercury, the guilty plea means Selby admitted to driving his Dodge Ram pickup truck while under the influence of both fentanyl and cocaine metabolites when he struck a Honda sedan, that was stationary on the shoulder of the highway, killing Reinoso.
The incident marked Selby’s second DUI offense and he has previous convictions for driving under suspension, according to court papers.
Pennsylvania State Police were initially dispatched to the scene of a multi-vehicle crash along the southbound lanes of Route 309 in Lower Gwynedd Township at 11:07 p.m. Upon arrival, they encountered a Honda sedan that had sustained heavy damage to the front and rear of the vehicle, as well as a Dodge Ram pickup truck that had sustained heavy front-end damage.
The driver of the Honda became entrapped in their vehicle as a result of the crash, and they were later extricated from the vehicle and transported via ambulance to Abington Hospital. Police said the driver was unconscious at the scene and had sustained serious, life-threatening injuries. A follow up by Lower Gwynedd Township Police indicated the driver was placed in critical condition and had been intubated, according to the complaint.
The victim — an unidentified male — died in the days following the crash, and the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office listed his cause of death as blunt impact trauma on Feb. 14 following an autopsy, police said.
The criminal complaint states a crash reconstruction specialist with the state police determined the damage profiles of the pickup truck and the sedan were consistent with a high-speed, offset, rear-end collision, with Selby’s truck identified as the striking vehicle.
Police on scene said Selby exhibited multiple signs of impairment, including a lack of coordination, bloodshot eyes, and slow, low, and raspy speech. Selby failed several field sobriety tests and exhibited both eye lid and body tremors, police said.
The complaint states Selby had a runny nose and complained of being hot and sweating even though he was standing outside in the cold wearing jeans, a jacket, and a winter hat. After placing Selby under arrest for DUI, police said they recovered two plastic vials from his vehicle that contained a white residue suspected to be cocaine and noted that multiple hypodermic needles were observed spread throughout Selby’s truck.
Selby refused to consent to a blood draw, stating “it may not be good for him,” however police secured a search warrant several hours later to draw two vials of Selby’s blood for testing, according to charging documents.
The results of those tests showed Selby had cocaine and fentanyl in his system at the time of the crash, police said.
Selby was initially charged with felony aggravated assault by vehicle while DUI, along with misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment and DUI – second offense, however those charges were upgraded during Selby’s preliminary hearing on March 30 due to the death of the victim, court records show.
Court records show Selby has had multiple prior convictions in Montgomery and Bucks counties, including multiple DUI and drug offenses.
Selby also drew regional headlines in June 2017 after he escaped from the Bucks County Correctional Facility while awaiting proceedings on drug charges. His escape prompted the lockdown of several Bucks County schools, as well as shelter-in-place orders for residents in Warrington Township and Chalfont Borough, according to reports.
He was taken into custody several days later, and his father, Daniel Selby Sr., was charged with hindering apprehension, aiding consummation of crime, and obstructing administration of law, for aiding his son during his escape.
Court records also show Selby pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of driving without a license in March 2023 at the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas. He was subsequently sentenced to six to 12 months in jail along with a $2,500 fine, and then transferred to Montgomery County to serve his sentence while awaiting proceedings on the new charges.
