LORAIN — A Huron man involved in a car crash that killed 52-year-old Larry Durasin was charged with aggravated vehicular homicide Tuesday.

Andrew Jones, 32, is being held in Lorain County Jail on $10,000 bond after being arraigned in Lorain Municipal Court on Tuesday morning, court records show. The case was bound over to a county grand jury.

Jones had a urine alcohol level of more than 0.3, according to a police report of the incident.

His urine alcohol level was the equivalent of about a 0.22 blood alcohol content. The legal driving limit is 0.08.

A warrant was issued for Jones’ arrest on the aggravated vehicular homicide charge Oct. 8 after police and city prosecutor Barry Motsch met to discuss the facts of the case, but they did not have access to him because he had been a patient at North Coast Behavioral Campus in Cleveland since the crash, according to the report.

Police say Jones drove his Chevy Malibu into the back of Durasin’s Ford Taurus about 2:50 p.m. Oct. 7. Durasin, who was wearing a seat belt and surrounded by deployed airbags, was pronounced dead at the scene near St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. He was stopped at a red light when the impact pushed his car into the intersection of West Erie and Kansas avenues, where he was hit by a pickup turning left from Kansas. He died of multiple blunt force trauma, including internal injuries, according to County Coroner Paul Matus.

The pickup’s driver, Dwight Clark, 42, of Lorain, was not hurt.

Jones spent a couple days at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, where he was flown following the crash, before being treated and released to North Coast.

Contact Adam Wright at 329-7155 or awright@chroniclet.com.

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