Driver charged with vehicular assault

Daniel J. Baumli

A Ravenwood man who was behind the wheel of an SUV during a single-vehicle accident on Ideal Road two miles north of Maryville early Sunday has been charged with felony alcohol-related vehicular assault in the second degree.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Daniel J. Baumli, 25, was driving a 2000 Honda CR-V northbound when he careened off the east side of the gravel road and struck a driveway, sending the vehicle airborne.

Injured were Baumli’s two passengers, Johnathon J. Riley, 21, of Bedford, Iowa, and Lukas D. Riley, 24, of Polo, neither of whom was wearing a seat belt. One of the men was thrown from the SUV, and the other was partially ejected.

Both passengers were taken by ambulance to St. Francis Hospital in Maryville with serious injuries.

The patrol report stated that Baumli was wearing a seat belt, suffered minor injuries, and declined treatment at the scene.

Placed in custody at the Nodaway County jail, Baumli was later released on $15,000 bond.

Conditions of the bond require that Baumli not consume alcoholic beverages, wear a secure continuous remote alcohol monitoring device, and refrain from entering any establishment whose primary business is the sale of alcoholic beverages.

The investigating officer on the scene was state Trooper Dale Reuter, who was assisted by the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Department and the Maryville Department of Public Safety.