Ariel Young, a 5-year-old girl who was injured in a car accident involving the assistant head coach of Kansas City Britt Reid, came out of a coma, according to a GoFundMe page that provides updates on the child’s condition.
The fundraiser, led by Tiffany Verhulst, the child’s aunt, said Monday that “Ariel is awake.” The girl was seriously injured and a 4-year-old child suffered non-life-threatening injuries, the CBS KCTV affiliate reported.
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The update comes more than a week after the February 4 crash of Reid, the son of the head coach, Andy Reid. Police said Reid’s younger truck hit a car that ran out of gas and then hit another car driven by relatives of the driver of the first car. A woman in the second car told police she crawled out of the vehicle and asked Reid to call 911 because she had lost her phone in the crash, according to KCTV.
Police said in a search warrant that when they arrived at the scene, Reid smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot eyes, according to KCTV. When asked if he drank, an officer said Reid told him he had “2-3 drinks,” KCTV reported.
The crash came three days before the Chiefs lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the LV Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida.
Reid joined the bosses in 2013, the same year his father was hired as head coach, as a defensive coach for quality control. Reid has been the outfield coach for the past two seasons. After the collapse, he was placed on administrative leave for the duration of his contract, which would have expired after the Super Bowl and now he is no longer with the team. The team previously said in a statement that “our focus remains on Ariel Young and her family.”
The Reid family has dealt with drug and legal issues in the past. In 2007, a judge compared Andy Reid’s house to a “drug emporium“and called Britt Reid” addicted “after sentencing him and his brother, Garrett Reid, to prison for separate incidents. Garrett Reid deceased in 2012.
Jordan Freiman contributed to this report.