Kansas mom's truck fatally striking 2 people on soccer field was accident, no criminal charges

The Kansas mother whose pickup truck fatally struck two people on a soccer field last month was sleeping during the accident and will not be criminally charged.

The Sedgwick County District Attorney's Office made the announcement Thursday, after getting back the results of a toxicology report on the unidentified, 34-year-old mother that showed she was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

“I have zero evidence that this was in any way impacted by intoxication, driving under the influence,” Marc Bennett, the county's district attorney. “I cannot only find no evidence of an intentional crime, I can find affirmative evidence that there was not an intentional crime."

It's unclear whether the woman might still face non-criminal charges in the incident.

The mother and her children told investigators the mother had planned to take a nap in the vehicle after a roughly 200-mile drive to the field. What also remains unclear is how the vehicle got put in gear and accelerated while the mother was sleeping in the driver's seat.