Woman who drove UTV in fatal crash charged with DWI
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A woman who drove a UTV in a crash that killed her husband in Maries County last month has been charged with a felony.
Mary Dearlove, 61, of Rolla, was charged on Tuesday with driving while intoxicated – causing the death of another person, misdemeanor reckless driving and an infraction of failing to wear a seatbelt. A criminal summons was issued on Tuesday and a court date has been scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12.
The probable cause statement says that troopers arrived on May 12 while Dearlove was on a stretcher and her husband, Donald Dearlove, had “an apparent fatal wound to his head” in the vehicles. He was 61.
A preliminary breath test indicated that Mary Dearlove’s blood alcohol level was .153, nearly twice the legal limit to drive, the statement says. A trooper wrote that she also appeared to be drunk.
She allegedly admitted to drinking at a bar in Viehy, Missouri. The crash occurred in the 17000 block of County Road 522 in Maries County.