UPDATED 4/12, 2:30 p.m. ET: Britt Reid, the former Chiefs assistant linebackers coach, has been charged with driving while intoxicated following the Feb. 4 crash that severely injured a 5-year-old girl.
Reid has been charged with the class D felony, with the potential of going to jail for one to seven years, according to the Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office. Officials said data from Britt’s pickup truck revealed he was going 82.6 MPH in a 65 MPH zone seconds before the crash, TMZ reports. His blood alcohol content shortly after the crash was reportedly .113.
According to a GoFundMe page for Ariel Young, the child is hospitalized with a “long road to recovery” ahead of her.
“Ariel remains in the hospital, she is getting a little better each day but she still has a long road to recovery,” a late-March update read. “Britt Reid is out everyday living his normal life while she cannot, please don’t let her story be forgotten. Court will take a long time and we don’t know what will be the outcome of it all. So please keep sharing her story and praying for her and the family. Thank you.”
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The young girl who was injured in a car accident involving former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid will likely have permanent brain damage.
The family’s attorney Tom Porto appeared on Good Morning America to discuss the collision that left the 5-year-old in a coma. “She’s awake, which is a huge development,” Porto told the show on Tuesday. “Likely she has permanent brain damage that she will endure for the rest of her life. She’s not walking. It’s a sad, sad, sad story.”
Police said Reid was “driving at highway speeds when his pickup truck struck the first car,” according to GMA. Porto released photos of the accident to ABC News, which show that Reid’s truck was totaled and the two other cars involved in the accident were flattened, per police. “When you look at those pictures, you wonder how anybody made it out of that car alive,” Porto said.
Reid’s truck struck two vehicles on the side of a highway entrance ramp near the Chief’s training complex. The 5-year-old’s mother and aunt had pulled over to help a 19-year-old relative who had run out of gas. The 5-year-old and her 4-year-old cousin were in the backseat of the second vehicle when they were hit, with the 4-year-old and two adults suffering non-life-threatening injuries. The incident happened just days before the Chiefs were set to play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl on Feb. 7.
A search warrant application obtained by ABC News says a police officer at the crash reportedly smelled “a moderate odor of alcoholic beverages emanating from [Reid].” Reid told authorities he had “two or three drinks” and was prescribed Adderall at the time of the accident.
Porto said he hasn’t seen the toxicology report yet, but that “we’re going to be advocating for the most serious charges and the most serious sentence that Britt could ever receive.”
Reid had to get surgery for injuries he sustained in the collision. The son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, Britt was the team’s outside linebackers coach at the time of the incident and was subsequently placed on administrative leave. His contract recently expired and wasn’t renewed following the crash. No charges have been filed in the case.
