An unnamed Kansas mom who drove her truck into a soccer game, causing the deaths of two people -- including a 6-year-old child -- will not be charged in the fatal accident.
After toxicology results didn't turn up any signs of intoxication, Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett told reporters ... "I have zero evidence that this was in any way impacted by intoxication, driving under the influence."
Bennett added that not only did he find no evidence of an intentional crime, he found evidence proving there was no intentional crime.
The driver had crashed her truck into the crowd at Wichita's Stryker Sports Complex on Oct. 17.
We reported earlier ... witnesses of the event said that the driver didn't appear to be intoxicated and after the vehicle came to a stop, she apparently told the crowd she fell asleep and accidentally hit the gas.
Wichita PD spokesperson Andrew Ford previously told us that the driver had been detained, questioned by police in a hours-long interview, and ultimately released without charges.
In her chat with investigators, the driver said she told her kids she'd be taking a nap in the truck after driving 200 miles that morning from her home in Garden City.
Bennett said ... "Her normal vehicle had some trouble with the air and tires and she asked her husband to fix it because she was concerned that it would not be safe to drive all the way to Wichita."
After leaving the sports complex later that morning, she returned in the early afternoon.
Bennett continued ... "She parks. She tells her kids she’s tired, which would be consistent with having gotten up that morning and driven that far. [She] takes her seat all the way back and goes to sleep."
The mom then woke up to her kids screaming as the car drove through the game ... and as bystanders helped her out of the truck, she yelled ... "Oh my God, Oh my God, what have I done?!"
Bennett said ... "She’s disoriented, she’s trying to sit up from a completely relaxed position to sit forward. Reaches for the steering wheel, looks up, sees shades that were not there when she went to sleep, batting at them."
The victims in the fatal accident had previously been identified as 6-year-old Cole Adrian and 35-year-old Nicholas Schafer ... with 10 others -- including 5 children -- suffering injuries.
After the accident, Cole's father, Chris Adrian, told the New York Times ... "Cole was an incredible kid and could put a smile on anyone’s face."
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