BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The final report on the death of a sheriff's deputy fatally injured last month while directing traffic blames the accident on a "distracted driver."

The report, released Thursday, found that a 16-year-old girl was heading east on Ind. 45 in her sport-utility vehicle on Oct. 17 when she approached the area where 27-year-old Deputy Sarah Jones was directing traffic around a stranded motorist.

The teen, who saw a wrecker with flashing yellow lights, slowed down and noticed Jones' sheriff's car behind the wrecker. The report said the girl told police she saw oncoming traffic pulling past the sheriff's car, so she pulled off to the right and over the shoulder line.

As she drove around the right side of the road, the teen's SUV hit Jones, police said.

The report stated that the teen told police she did not see Jones in the roadway.

Jones died two days later at an Indianapolis hospital, making her the first Monroe County sheriff's deputy killed in the line of duty. She had been with the department since February.

Witnesses told police that Jones was attempting to move traffic around the area because the wrecker was partially in one of the highway's lanes.

They told investigators Jones was motioning with her flashlight to move vehicles from behind her sheriff's car around the scene to continue west.

The report said Jones had been dispatched to the area to help direct traffic at the scene where a car was being pulled from a ravine.

That car rolled into the ravine after a man pulled over to buy a soft drink from a soda machine. The man put the car in neutral which caused it to roll across the highway and into the ravine.

No charges were filed against the teen driver.