Kansas City Chiefs lineback coach Britt Reid and a son of head coach Andy Reid told police he drank “two or three drinks” before being involved in a car accident Thursday night. threatening injuries, according to a warrant filed in Circuit Court in Jackson County, Mo.
The accident happened a few days before the Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida, Sunday when the Chiefs, the reigning NFL champion, played the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Chiefs flew to Tampa on Saturday, but Britt Reid, 35, did not make the trip.
According to the search warrant, an officer was able to smell a “moderate odor of alcoholic beverages” on Reid after the accident.
The team confirmed in a statement Friday that Reid was involved in an accident but did not provide details. “We are collecting information, and we will not comment further at this time,” the statement said.
In response to an investigation into a possible accident involving Britt Reid, a Kansas City Police Department spokeswoman, Mo., said an accident occurred on Interstate 435, not far from the Chiefs’ training facility. .
The spokesman would not provide further details or identify anyone involved in the crash, citing a law in Missouri that prohibits police from disclosing the names of people who have not been charged with a crime. But the details in the police incident report, such as the make and model of the cars involved and the description of what happened, match the search warrant, which Reid does mention.
According to police, the vehicle hit a highway ramp less than a mile from Arrowhead Stadium. The driver stops with his flashlights and calls his cousins for help. When they got there, the cousins parked in front of the disabled car and left their lights on because the battery was dying in the disabled car.
Reid entered the driveway with a ram pickup truck and hit the left front of the stranded car, according to the police incident report. The driver was sitting in the car and was not injured.
Reid’s bakkie then hit the back of the cousin’s car. The driver and an adult in the front passenger seat were not injured. But a 4-year-old and a 5-year-old sitting in the back were both injured and taken to hospital, the 5-year-old with life-threatening injuries.
The five-year-old was still in critical condition with a brain injury, according to a police statement Monday morning.
After the Super Bowl, which the Chiefs lost, 31-9, Andy Reid addressed his son’s accident for the first time.
“My heart goes out to everyone involved in the accident, especially the family with the little girl who is fighting for her life,” Andy Reid said, adding that she was ‘heart bleeding’.
Britt Reid had non-life-threatening injuries, police said, but complained of stomach pain and was also taken to a hospital after the accident.
“Most serious injuries / fatal accidents take weeks to investigate, as well as criminal investigations,” Kansas City police said in a statement released Monday, explaining why no arrests were made and the names of those involved in the accident have not yet been done. released. “It’s no different.”
Reid has been a Chiefs coach since his father was appointed head coach eight years ago, and has spent the past two seasons coaching the lineout balance. Before joining the Chiefs’ coaching staff, he spent three seasons at Temple University as a graduate assistant working on the offense.
He was also an intern for his father at the Philadelphia Eagles in 2009.
Britt Reid has been in legal trouble before. In 2007, Reid, then 22, pleaded guilty to charges of weapons and drugs as a result of a road rage dispute. He was swinging a gun at another driver in Philadelphia in the suburbs when his brother Garrett was arrested after a drug-related traffic accident. Andy Reid took five weeks leave from the Eagles after his sons were arrested.
Britt Reid also pleaded guilty to simple assault, possession of a criminal instrument and possession of drugs in the case. While out on bail before the case was decided, he was arrested after driving in a shopping cart in a parking lot and eventually pleading guilty to driving under the influence.
In 2012, Garrett Reid was found dead due to an accidental overdose in his dormitory at the Eagles’ training ground in Bethlehem, Pa. He was 29.