{"id":500530,"date":"2026-10-18T23:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500530\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T23:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:32:08","slug":"driver-released-without-charges-after-deadly-kansas-soccer-crash-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500530\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver released without charges after deadly Kansas soccer crash \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman who drove a pickup truck onto a soccer field during a weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/kansas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">youth game in Kansas<\/a>, killing two people and injuring 10 others, has been released without charges as the investigation continues, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old woman was released pending results of toxicology tests and a mechanical examination of the vehicle in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/national-international\/vehicle-drives-through-soccer-game-wichita-kansas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">aftermath of Saturday&#8217;s crash<\/a>. Her name hasn&#8217;t been made public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur officers and investigators will continue working to understand exactly what happened,\u201d Wichita Police Chief Joe Sullivan said, noting that no charges have been filed to date. <\/p>\n<p>The woman had one child playing soccer on another field at the Stryker Sports Complex in northeast Wichita when Saturday&#8217;s crash occurred, a police statement said. The statement said two of her other children were with her in the pickup truck when it struck multiple children and adults. <\/p>\n<p>According to a preliminary investigation, the Chevrolet pickup was parked in a parking space near the soccer fields before it drove onto one of the fields. <\/p>\n<p>Police identified those killed at the scene as Cole Adrian, 6, and Nicholas Schafer, 35, both of McPherson, Kansas. They were not related. <\/p>\n<p>Ten others ranging from 5 years old to 68 were taken to area hospitals with injuries described as non-serious.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say they have interviewed more than 30 witnesses, including the driver and her two children who were her inside the pickup at the time of the crash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who drove a pickup truck onto a soccer field during a weekend youth game in Kansas,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17819,48,52,51,734,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-500530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-kansas","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-law-enforcement","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}