KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Former assistant head coach Britt Reid has been charged with drunk driving in connection with a February 4 accident that left a 5-year-old girl with a traumatic brain injury.
The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office announced Monday that Reid, 35, was accused of serious physical injuries DWI, a class D offense with a possible prison sentence of one to seven years. Prosecutors sought a $ 100,000 bail.
According to a document of the probable cause of KCPD, Reid’s “serum blood alcohol concentration” two hours after the collapse was 0.113%, which exceeds the legal limit of 0.08%.
Reid – who served as a head coach outside of his father, Andy Reid, who coaches staff with bosses – allegedly crashed the Dodge Ram pickup into two cars on the shoulder of the road shortly after 9 p.m., near the ramp entrance from Stadium Drive to Southern Highway 435 in Kansas City, Missouri.
The accident happened three days before the Chiefs played in Super Bowl LV. Britt Reid did not participate in the match.
According to a criminal complaint filed at Jackson County Circuit Court, Britt Reid “acted negligently in driving at excessive speed, failing to recognize a disabled vehicle, hitting it and, as a result, causing serious physical injury.” child in one of the vehicles.
Reid’s vehicle hit a disabled Chevrolet Impala, which was running on gasoline and would not start, and a Chevrolet Traverse SUV, which arrived to assist the first vehicle, according to a partially drafted the KCPD emergency report.
Drivers of the two vehicles parked along the side of the road added gas to Impala, but it still hasn’t started. The driver got out of the vehicle, taking jumper cables from the trunk of the vehicle at the time of the crash.
Britt Reid was driving almost 83 mph – or 18 mph above the displayed speed limit – when the initial accident occurred, according to court records.
His truck cut the left front of the Impala and was still traveling at nearly 68 mph when it hit Traverse, which was parked in front of the Impala, according to a probable KCPD statement.
Two children, including 5-year-old Ariel Young, were in Traverse. Ariel was taken to a local hospital with a life-threatening brain damage as well as a skull fracture and subdural hematomas, according to police records.
Ariel, who has been hospitalized since March 27, was sitting in the third row of seats next to the place where Britt Reid’s truck hit the car.
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The other child in the vehicle, Young’s cousin, was also taken to hospital on the night of the accident, but was not seriously injured. She was in the second row of the vehicle.
“The Kansas City Chiefs remains a firm concern for all those affected by this tragic accident,” the chiefs said in a statement Monday after the allegations were announced. “Our prayers focus on healing and continually recovering Ariel. The bosses are in regular contact with the designated representative of the family at this difficult time. “
Ariel’s mother, Felicia, and her sister, who was also in the vehicle with her young daughter, told police they were both knocked unconscious during the wreck. Both were also checked by emergency personnel.
The accident happened near the Truman sports complex, but prosecutors said they had no direct evidence that Reid was drinking at Arrowhead Stadium.
However, Britt Reid admitted to police that he “left work” just before the crash. He said he was looking over his left shoulder “to assess the traffic so it could merge” at the time of the crash, according to a probable cause statement.
Britt Reid said Impala has no lights on, which is why she didn’t see it.
According to a search warrant application 41 Action News obtained the day after the crash, Reid told a KCPD officer on the spot that he drank two or three drinks.
An officer from the KCPD DUI Unit smelled alcohol on Reid’s breath and said his eyes were red and bleeding. Field sobriety tests conducted on the spot also indicated that Reid was under the influence.
Britt Reid was operated on after the accident, according to his father. The statement of the probable cause indicates that he suffered “a blunt force injury to the groin that requires emergency surgery.”
Six days after the crash, chief officials said Britt Reid he was no longer with the team, which did not renew his contract. He had worked for the bosses since his father joined the organization before the 2013 season.
The NFL continues to monitor the situation.
“We have been closely monitoring all developments in this matter that remain under review of the league’s personal conduct policy,” said NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy. “After the completion of the legal proceedings, we will address this issue and take all appropriate action.”
Britt Reid previously spent time in a Pennsylvania prison after that pointing the gun at another driver during a road rage incident in January 2007.
He pleaded guilty to charges of carrying an unlicensed firearm, simple assault, possession of a controlled substance and possession of a criminal instrument in connection with the incident, according to Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, court records.
Pending a court date, Britt Reid was arrested again and charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug accessories on 23 August 2007.
His connection was revoked in the first case after the second arrest.
In the end, Britt Reid was sentenced to eight to 23 months in prison for the first incident and one to six months in prison for the second. He was released on parole in February 2008 and fined a total of more than $ 10,000.
Britt Reid, who graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, began her NFL career as an intern with the Eagles on her father’s staff in 2009.
He spent 2013 and 2014 as a defensive coach for quality control in Kansas City, before being promoted to assistant defensive coach in 2015.
He served as the 2016-18 Chiefs’ defensive line coach before moving to the outside linebacker coach for the past two seasons.
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