The former NASCAR champion was accused of assaulting his ex-girlfriend last year.
Kurt Busch will not face criminal charges for his involvement in the alleged assault of ex-girlfriend, Patrica Driscoll, the Delaware Attorney General's office announced Thursday.
"The Delaware Department of Justice has carefully reviewed the complaint made of an alleged act of domestic violence involving Kurt Busch in Dover on September 26, 2014, which was reported to the Dover Police Department on Nov. 5, 2014 and investigated," the Delaware Department of Justice said in a statement. "After a thorough consideration of all of the available information about the case, it is determined that the admissible evidence and available witnesses would likely be insufficient to meet the burden of establishing beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Busch committed a crime during the September 26th incident. Likelihood of meeting that high burden of proof is the standard for prosecutors in bringing a case. For this reason, the Department of Justice will not pursue criminal charges in this case."
Driscoll accused Busch of assaulting her inside his motor home on September 26, 2014 at Dover International Speedway, the site of that weekend's NASCAR race. Driscoll testified in a protective order hearing that Busch grabbed her face and slammed her head three times against a bedroom wall.
Busch denied the assault, but acknowledged "cupping" Driscoll's face, saying he "tapped" her head against the wall in the process. The couple had broken up the week before.
A Family Court Commissioner ruled in favor of Driscoll's request for a no-contact order last month. In his findings, Commissioner David Jones said "more likely than not" Busch "committed an act of abuse" against his former girlfriend.
Busch was indefinitely suspended by NASCAR on February 20, two days before the Daytona 500, following Jones' ruling.
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