District Attorney offers possible explanation of Stryker Sports tragedy

McClatchy - Wichita Eagle
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Nov 13, 2026
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Which leads us to the sixth, and I believe final,
piece of analysis that I have to go through,
and that is, what if the final possibility
is that if she pulled up there to that curb,
she thought she put it in park but failed to,
simply forgot, an act of negligence.
Now, I will admit that did not, it occurred to me,
but that did not seem plausible
until I was out at the scene on that Tuesday afterwards,
and the officer drove up to the curb, stopped the car, and we said,
well, take your foot off the brake. He goes, I did.
And we sat there and waited and waited.
And after about 15 minutes, we went, this truck isn't moving.
And then we walked up, and I wanted to see it myself.
That truck was still in drive
in that exact same spot, not one akin to it,
but the same location where that truck was.
Tires against that 7-inch curb, and it did not move.
So for that to be the explanation, one other event has to take place.
As she lays back and goes to sleep,
her child does say at one point she kind of turns,
sort of goes from her back to her side.
And if her foot comes forward and hits that accelerator,
that's all that has to take place for that to be the explanation.
I'm not leaping to that conclusion.
I am going through every possible scenario as brought to me
by the law enforcement officers who investigated this case.
