Ariel Young, a 5-year-old girl who was injured in a car accident involving the then assistant coach of the Kansas City Chiefs Britt Reid, appears from a coma according to a GoFundMe page that provided information about the child’s condition.
The fundraiser, run by Tiffany Verhulst, the child’s aunt, said Monday that “Ariel is awake.” The girl was critically injured and a 4-year-old child sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the collision, reports KCTV, a subsidiary of CBS.
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The update comes more than a week since the Feb. 4 crash that involved Reid, the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. According to police, the younger Reid truck hit a car that ran out of fuel and then hit another car driven by the relatives of the driver of the first car. A woman in the second car told police she had crawled out of the vehicle and asked Reid to call 911 because she had lost her phone, according to KCTV.
According to KCTV, Reid said in a search warrant when they arrived at the scene, he smelled of alcohol and his eyes were bloodshot. Asked if he drank, one officer said Reid told him he “had 2-3 drinks”, KCTV reported.
The accident occurred three days before the Chiefs lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Florida.
Reid joined the Chiefs in 2013, the same year his father was appointed head coach, as a defensive quality control coach. Reid has been the linebacking coach for the past two seasons. After the accident, he was placed on administrative leave for the duration of his contract, which believe expired to the Super Bowl and he is no longer with the team now. The team said earlier in a statement: “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 home to a “drug emporiumand Britt Reid was called an “addict” after he and his brother, Garrett Reid, were jailed for separate incidents. deceased in 2012.
Jordan Freiman contributed to this report.