A Kansas mother will not face criminal charges after her Chevrolet truck plowed into a soccer game in Wichita, killing two people and injuring 10 others. Authorities said Thursday that the 34-year-old woman was asleep when the deadly crash occurred, as reported by The New York Post.

The truck entered a crowd at the Stryker Sports Complex on Oct. 17. Adrian Cole, 6, and Nicholas Schafer, 35, were killed, while victims ranging in age from 5 to 68 were injured.

Authorities waited for toxicology results before announcing their decision. The results provided no indication that the woman had been under the influence when the truck entered the field.

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“I have zero evidence that this was in any way impacted by intoxication, driving under the influence,” Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said during a press conference streamed by KAKE.

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Investigators also examined whether the crash could have been an intentional act. Bennett said the evidence did not support that possibility and instead pointed away from any deliberate crime.

“I cannot only find no evidence of an intentional crime, I can find affirmative evidence that there was not an intentional crime,” Bennett said. Investigators consequently confirmed that the woman would not be charged.

The driver of a pickup truck that plowed into spectators at a youth soccer match in Wichita, Kansas, last month, killing two people and injuring 10 others, will not face criminal charges. Authorities say she had fallen asleep in the parked truck before it suddenly accelerated toward the field.

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The woman was interviewed along with her two children, ages 14 and 11. She told her children “she was going to take a nap” inside the Chevrolet truck before the vehicle suddenly moved toward the field.

Officials said it remained unclear whether she had placed the truck in park. They believed she may have removed her foot from the brake and accidentally pressed the gas, although the precise sequence was not established.

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The woman told investigators that she awoke at 6 a.m. on Oct. 17 and drove her husband’s truck roughly 200 miles from Garden City to Wichita. She had been using the vehicle for only a few days.

“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,” Bennett said.

She initially arrived at the Stryker Sports Complex at approximately 10:40 a.m. The woman left at about 1:20 p.m., returned roughly an hour later and parked near one of the fields.

The deadly crash occurred less than an hour after her return. Bennett said the woman told her children she was tired before reclining her seat and falling asleep.

“She parks. She tells her kids she’s tired, which would be consistent with having gotten up that morning and driven that far,” Bennett said. “[She] takes her seat all the way back and goes to sleep.”

Investigators considered whether the woman could have shifted the truck into drive by accidentally striking the gear stick with her leg. Bennett said that explanation was unlikely because the brake would have needed to be pressed.

“[You] can’t put it in gear unless the foot’s on the brake,” Bennett said. The woman told investigators that she awakened to the sound of her children “screaming.”

Witnesses pulled the woman from the truck following the crash. Horrified by what she saw, she shouted, “Oh my God, Oh my God, what have I done?!”

“She’s disoriented; she’s trying to sit up from a completely relaxed position to sit forward,” Bennett said. He added, “Reaches for the steering wheel, looks up, sees shades that were not there when she went to sleep, batting at them.”

Wichita Police Chief Joe Sullivan said investigators did not discover any faults with the Chevrolet truck. Audio obtained by Fox News captured dispatchers describing the crash as an “MCI,” referring to a mass casualty incident.

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The investigation ultimately found no evidence of intoxication, an intentional act, or a fault with the truck. Despite the deaths of Cole and Schafer and the injuries suffered by 10 others, the findings left authorities without grounds to pursue criminal charges against the driver.

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