Napping driver whose truck accelerated on Kansas soccer field, killing 2, won’t be charged
Investigators said the driver was asleep and not impaired, and a 28-page report found no basis for criminal charges under Kansas law.
- On Thursday, Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett announced no criminal charges will be filed in the October 17 fatal crash at Stryker Sports Complex in Wichita, Kansas.
- Evidence indicates the driver fell asleep while waiting for her children's soccer games and inadvertently left the truck in drive, causing it to roll over a 7-inch curb onto the field.
- Toxicology tests showed no impairment and vehicle inspections confirmed no mechanical failures, Wichita Police Chief Joe Sullivan reported. Prosecutors found no evidence of intentional or reckless conduct.
- Bennett stated the incident did not meet the legal threshold for criminal charges under Kansas law. The matter will proceed as a civil case under negligence standards.
- The collision claimed the lives of 6-year-old Cole Adrian and 35-year-old Nicholas Schafer, both from McPherson, Kansas. The community will carry the weight of a loss that officials say no legal conclusion can undo.
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Woman in truck that crashed into soccer field in Kasnas, killing 2, won’t face charges
A woman in the driver’s seat of a pickup truck that sped onto a field during a soccer game in Kansas last month, killing two people, will not face charges after investigators found no evidence it was an intentional crime, officials said Thursday.
Sedgwick County Attorney Marc Bennett concluded that the driver had fallen asleep and that the act was the result of negligence, so it does not constitute a crime.
No charges will be filed against mom behind wheel of truck that hit people on soccer field, killing boy, 6, man, 35: DA
No charges will be filed against a mother who was behind the wheel of a truck that hit multiple people on a soccer field in Wichita, Kansas, last month, killing a 6-year-old boy and a 35-year-old man, the Sedgwick County district attorney said Thursday, according to KAKE-TV.“This is not a crime, and I cannot charge this driver with a crime,” DA Marc Bennett said during a news conference with the Wichita Police Department, the station noted.'We o…
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