Britt Reid, the former Kansas City Chiefs assistant linebackers coach, has been charged with driving while intoxicated in connection with a Feb. 4 crash that left a 5-year-old girl with a brain injury.
The Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced Monday that Reid has been charged with DWI, according to KSHB. The charge is a Class D felony with a potential jail sentence of one to seven years. Prosecutors have requested a $100,000 bond.
Reid had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.113 and was driving 84 miles per hour 1.9 seconds before hitting a vehicle in the breakdown lane, according to reporter Dan Wetzel.
Reid is the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid.
Ariel Young, who has been hospitalized since the Feb. 4 collision near Arrowhead Stadium, emerged from a coma nearly two weeks after the accident, which was three days before the most recent Super Bowl.
The girl will be confined to a “wheelchair for the foreseeable future,” her family said.
Reid allegedly slammed his pickup truck into two vehicles on the side of a highway entrance ramp, injuring Ariel and a 4-year-old cousin inside one of the cars, according to reports. The 4-year-old girl’s injuries were non-life threatening.
Reid allegedly hit the first car, which had run out of gas, and then careened into the second vehicle occupied by the girls’ other relatives, reports said. After the crash, a woman climbed out of the second car and exhorted Reid to call authorities.
Reid told investigators he had “two or three drinks” and had a prescription for Adderall at the time of the crash, according to The Associated Press.
A report by WDAF in Kansas City said officers at the scene noted Reid’s eyes were bloodshot and that he reeked of alcohol. After a field sobriety test, Reid’s blood was drawn for further examination, reports said. Those tests are expected to take about a month or more to complete.
The outside linebackers coach, who joined the Chiefs the same year his father was hired as head coach in 2013, was placed on administrative leave immediately following the crash but is no longer employed by the team. His contract expired in the days following the crash and was not renewed.
After the accident, Reid did not travel with the team to Tampa Bay for the Super Bowl, and he underwent surgery for injuries not detailed by the team.
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