Britt Reid, the son of head coach Andy Ried, was involved in a February 4 accident that left a 5-year-old girl critically injured.
See it raise the charges against the former assistant coach of Kansas City Chiefs, Britt Reid, for drunk driving for his role in a car accident of the beginning of the year who critically injured a 5-year-old girl.
Prosecutors from Jackson County, Missouri, on Monday filed a Class D criminal charge, claiming that Reid “He operated a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and acted negligently while driving at excessive speed.”
In case of conviction, Reid could be sentenced to a maximum of seven years in prison.
The accident occurred on February 4 when police said the truck Reid hit two vehicles on the edge of the motorway entrance ramp near the training complex at heads right next to Arrowhead Stadium, hurting Ariel Young 5 years old and another small child in one of the vehicles.
Police said that Reid He admitted to investigators that he had consumed “two or three drinks” in addition to his prescription for Adderall before the accident.
A lawyer for his family Young people said last month that the girl suffered a devastating brain injury that left her unable to walk or speak. Family of Young people ask for “the worst charges and the worst sentence Britt could receive, lawyer Tom Porto told ABC “Good Morning America” last month.
Reid He is the son of the head coach of heads, Andy Reid, and served as a coach for outside defenders at the time of the accident. He was initially placed on administrative leave after the crash, but is no longer employed by the team after his contract was not renewed in the days following the crash. He did not travel with the team to Tampa, Florida, for him Super Bowl LV, on February 7, where the city of Kansas lost at Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Information from the Associated Press was used in writing this story.