Kalispell Man Pleads Not Guilty in Highway 2 Crash That Severely Injured Four Teens

The 36-year-old Kalispell man accused of swerving his pickup truck into an SUV carrying five teenagers in September while under the influence of drugs and alcohol has pleaded not guilty to four felony counts of vehicular assault and one felony count of criminal endangerment. Four of the teens were severely injured. Riley Richard O’Brien entered the pleas Thursday in Flathead County District Court before District Judge Amy Eddy, with the gallery full of the victims’ supporters. He also faces a misdemeanor count of negligent vehicular assault and is being held in the Flathead County Detention Center on a $1 million bond. A trial date has not yet been set. The case will be reassigned to a new judge when Eddy leaves the bench following her election to the Montana Supreme Court last week. According to charging documents filed Oct. 21 by Deputy Flathead County Attorney Ashley Johnson, law enforcement responded to a crash on U.S.

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