Andy Reid, head coach of Kansas City, spoke in public for the first time about his son’s car accident that left a 5-year-old girl in a critical condition and said Sunday: “My heart bleeds for everyone involved. is.”
“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 Super Bowl LV lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-9. . ‘I can not comment on it more than I am here. The questions you have, therefore, I will have to reject; but only from a human point of view does my heart bleed for everyone involved. ‘
Reid’s son Britt, the Chiefs’ coach of the lineout balance, was involved in the three cars in Kansas City on Thursday night. He is not traveling 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 five-year-old inside. The police report states that the driver of the vehicle sustained non-life-threatening injuries and that he is being investigated for possible impairment.
According to a Kansas City police officer, Reid’s eyes were bloodshot and that the officer smelled a moderate odor of alcoholic beverages, according to a statement from the police officer obtained by ESPN. The statement further said Reid told the officer that he drank two to three drinks and that he also prescribed Adderall.
Asked if the incident was a distraction for him or the Chiefs, Andy Reid said: ‘We posted the game plan last week. The distraction was not a distraction as far as the game plan was concerned. It was already in and how we are going to work with it and move forward.
“From a human point of view, it’s difficult. From a football point of view, I do not think it was a problem.”