Kansas City head coach Andy Reid spoke publicly for the first time about his son’s car accident that left a 5-year-old girl in critical condition, saying on Sunday, “My heart is bleeding for everyone involved.”
“My heart goes out to everyone involved in the crash, especially the family with the little girl fighting for her life,” Reid said Sunday night after the Chiefs lost the LV Super Bowl to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-9. “Comment more than I’m here. So the questions you have, I’ll have to reject; but only from a human point of view, my heart bleeds for everyone involved.”
Reid’s son Britt, the chiefs’ assistant coach, was involved in a three-car crash in Kansas City on Thursday night. He did not travel with the Chiefs to Tampa, Florida, for the Super Bowl.
Britt Reid admitted to police that he was driving the vehicle that collided with two other cars, including the one with the 5-year-old child inside. The police report said the driver of the vehicle suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was being investigated for possible deficiencies.
A Kansas City Police Department official said Reid’s eyes were shot with blood and that the officer smelled “a moderate smell of alcohol,” according to a statement from the ESPN police officer. The statement went on to say that Reid told the officer that he had two or three drinks and that he had taken an Adderall prescription.
Asked if the incident was a distraction for him or the bosses, Andy Reid said: “We put in the game plan last week. The distraction was not a distraction from the game plan. That was already and how we were going to work with him and move forward.
“From a human point of view, it’s a tough one. From a football point of view, I don’t think it was a problem.”