INDIANAPOLIS, IN : Driver in double fatal Tesla crash was intoxicated on Wednesday February 8th 2017

The driver of a speeding Tesla electric car that crashed and burned in Indianapolis, killing her and a passenger, was too drunk to drive, according to a police report released Wednesday.

The report, which includes toxicology test results, said 27-year-old driver Casey Speckman had a blood-alcohol level of 0.21 percent and 44-year-old passenger Kevin McCarthy, the owner of the Model S, had a blood-alcohol level of 0.17 percent. Indiana's legal limit is 0.08 percent.

Palo Alto, California-based Tesla Motors has said it's unlikely its semi-autonomous Autopilot system was engaged when the car crashed, because Autopilot would have limited the vehicle's speed to less than 35 miles per hour on the street where the crash occurred.

Tesla told The Indianapolis Star in a story published Wednesday that it's working with investigators and is "deeply saddened" by the crash.

Tesla has said the car sustained so much damage that it didn't transmit data to the company's servers. That data would show if the driver had the car in Autopilot mode. Police haven't yet determined how fast the car was going, but the damage suggests it was speeding.

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Driver in double fatal Tesla crash was intoxicated