Man involved in DUI crash gets 30 days in jail

A man was sentenced on Wednesday to five years probation and 30 days in jail for a drinking and driving accident that left a woman severely injured. 

Flathead District Judge Robert Allison pronounced the sentence for Joshua Kalib Myers, 35, after he previously pleaded guilty to felony negligent vehicular assault. The probationary sentence is a five-year suspended commitment to Montana State Prison.

At the scene of the Nov. 16, 2015, crash, Myers cursed at a Montana Highway Patrol trooper after witnesses said he was driving in the wrong lane of traffic and caused a three-vehicle collision on U.S. 2.

Myers was slurring his speech and performed poorly on two field sobriety tests, Flathead District Court documents state.

When asked for a blood sample, Myers gave a reply with his thoughts about the terrorist group ISIS and other threats to America. Once in the patrol car, an in-car video recorded Myers saying that he had consumed a lot of alcohol and that he was “surprised this has not happened before since he is a raging alcoholic.”

A week after the crash the trooper spoke with the crash victim, who said her back was broken from the crash impact and she had been partially paralyzed.

Reporter Megan Strickland can be reached at 758-4459 or mstrickland@dailyinterlake.com.