Wrong way driver arrested for vehicular manslaughter

The driver who was going the wrong way on Highway 95 near Athol and caused a crash that killed three people last week was arrested Friday after he was discharged from Kootenai Health. Ryan J. Turner, 27, is now in the Kootenai County Jail facing three charges of vehicular manslaughter. The Idaho State Police has reported that Turner was driving his Chevy Silverado north in the southbound lanes of Highway 95 just before 4 a.m. on Sept. 12 when he ran into a minivan head on. Spokane resident Matthew-Michael Baroni, 33, and his two daughters, 8-year-old Madilyn and 6-year-old Molly, died at the scene. Baroni was an independent contractor for The Spokesman-Review and was returning home after delivering newspapers to Sandpoint. The northbound and southbound lanes of Highway 95 are separated by a wide median in the area where the crash occurred. ISP investigators have said they believe Turner had been drinking.