堪萨斯州威奇托市：母亲驾车冲入足球场致2死案 检方确认其开车时睡着决定不起诉
堪萨斯州塞奇威克县地方检察官马克·贝内特11月12日宣布，10月17日在威奇托市斯特赖克体育中心发生的致命撞车事故中，涉事女司机将不会面临刑事指控。调查确认，这名34岁的母亲当时在驾驶过程中睡着了，并非酒驾或毒驾。事故发生在10月17日，这名来自花园城的女子驾驶丈夫的卡车冲入正在进行青少年足球比赛的人群，造成6岁的阿德里安·科尔和35岁的尼古拉斯·谢弗死亡，另有10人受伤，伤者年龄从5岁到68岁不等。贝内特在新闻发布会上表示，毒理检测结果出炉后，没有任何证据显示驾驶员受到酒精或毒品影响，“我没有任何证据表明这与酒驾或毒驾有关”。调查还发现，女子当天清晨6时起床，驾驶仅使用几天的丈夫的卡车行驶约200英里来到威奇托，上午10时40分左右首次抵达体育中心，下午1时20分离开后约一小时又返回，将车停在球场附近，随后发生事故。威奇托警察局长乔·沙利文表示，车辆本身未发现机械故障。警方此前将这起事件定性为大规模伤亡事件。
Wichita, Kansas: Prosecutors Decline to Charge Mother in Soccer Field Crash That Killed Two, Say She Fell Asleep at the Wheel
Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett announced on November 12 that the woman driver in the fatal crash at Wichita's Stryker Sports Complex on October 17 will not face criminal charges. Investigators determined that the 34-year-old mother fell asleep while driving and was not impaired by alcohol or drugs. The crash occurred on October 17, when the Garden City woman drove her husband's truck into a crowd at a youth soccer match, killing Adrian Cole, 6, and Nicholas Schaefer, 35, and injuring 10 others, ranging in age from 5 to 68.
At a news conference, Bennett said that after toxicology results came back, there was no evidence the driver was under the influence of alcohol or drugs: "I have no evidence that this had anything to do with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs." Investigators also found that the woman had gotten up at 6 a.m. that day, driven about 200 miles to Wichita in her husband's truck, which she had been driving for only a few days, first arrived at the sports complex at about 10:40 a.m., left at about 1:20 p.m. and returned roughly an hour later, parking near the field before the crash occurred. Wichita Police Chief Joe Sullivan said no mechanical problems were found with the vehicle. Police had previously characterized the incident as a mass-casualty event.
来源：塞奇威克县地方检察官办公室
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