VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A father who fatally injured his 9-year-old daughter in a sledding accident involving a truck and an inner tube has not been charged with a crime yet, authorities said.

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Madison Gecho.

Peter Gecho, 36, faces possible charges in Tuesday's death, including vehicular homicide or manslaughter, but he has not been arrested at this time. Authorities said charges were likely next week.

A parenting plan -- which carries the force of a court order -- barred Madison Gecho's parents from drinking and then driving with their children. However, the restriction is a standard part of parenting plans and was not specific to the case, officials said.

Deputies believe alcohol was a factor in the accident Tuesday night. Peter Gecho had been towing his daughter behind his pickup truck on an inner tube when she slammed into a brick wall.

Teenage witnesses who had been riding in the bed of Gecho’s pickup implied that the 36-year-old had been drinking, according to Sgt. Tim Bieber with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, and hospital employees said they smelled alcohol on his breath.

Deputies were unable to order a blood sample due to jurisdictional issues involving Oregon law; if Madison had remained in a Washington hospital, her father would have been required to provide a blood sample.

Gecho and Madison's mother are separated and also have a 15-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son.

Another detail that surfaced in the investigation was that Gecho never called 9-1-1 during the emergency, according to Bieber.

Instead, Gecho drove his dying daughter to a hospital several miles away. Had he called 9-1-1, he would have summoned immediate medical help from paramedic firefighters a quarter of a mile away, Bieber explained.

Gecho did, however, summon his lawyer, who came to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland, where Madison died.

MORE: Family statement about Madison's death

Additional details about the deadly accident emerged Thursday, including more information about 9-1-1 calls placed by passersby, apparently before the accident occurred.

Two people had called 9-1-1 to report a man driving in circles, towing people behind his pickup truck in the snow at Thomas Jefferson Middle School Tuesday night, Bieber said.

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Spray paint marks the location of the deadly accident.

When deputies arrived a short time later, Gecho and more than half a dozen kids who were with him were gone. He was already en route to the hospital after slamming his daughter, Madison against a brick wall on a tight turn.

Because Gecho didn’t call 9-1-1, deputies weren’t alerted of the accident until Madison had been transferred from Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital in Washington to Legacy Emanuel in Portland.

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The brick bench/wall that 9-year-old Madison Gecho struck.

Towing sleds, inner tubes and any other device with a vehicle, whether on a roadway or on private property, is illegal in Washington state.

(AP also contributed to this article.)