KANSAS CITY, Ma. Former Chiefs assistant linebacker Britt Reid is charged with driving while intoxicated in connection with an accident on February 4 that left a five-year-old girl with a traumatic brain injury.
The Jackson County Attorney’s Office announced Monday that Reid, 35, was charged with DWI Serious Injury, a class D offense with a possible prison sentence of one to seven years. Prosecutors demanded a $ 100,000 bond.
According to a KCPD probable cause document, Reid’s “serum blood alcohol concentration” was 0.113% two hours after the accident, which is more than the legal limit of 0.08%.
Reid – who served as coach of his father, Andy Reid, as coach of the Chiefs at the Chiefs – allegedly collided with his Dodge Ram pickup truck in two cars on the shoulder of the street near the entrance driveway shortly after 9 p.m. Stadium Drive to the southern Interstate. 435 in Kansas City, Missouri.
The accident occurred three days before the Chiefs played in Super Bowl LV. Britt Reid did not attend the match.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Jackson Court Circuit Court, Britt Reid ‘acted with criminal negligence by driving at an excessive speed because he was unaware of a vehicle with a disability, hit it and caused serious bodily injury as a result ‘. a child in one of the vehicles.
Reid’s vehicle hit a disabled Chevrolet Impala, which had fuel and would not start, and a Chevrolet Traverse SUV, which arrived to help the first vehicle, according to a KCPD accident report partially edited.
The drivers of the two vehicles parked along the road added the Impala gas, but it still did not want to start. The driver was outside his vehicle and pulled jump cables out of the trunk during the accident.
According to court reports, Britain was driving at almost 83 km / h – or 18 km / h over the posted speed limit – when the initial crash occurred.
His truck collided with the left front of the Impala and was still traveling almost 68 km / h when it struck the Traverse, which was parked in front of the Impala, according to a probable cause statement from KCPD.
Two children, including 5-year-old Ariel Young, were in the Traverse. Ariel was taken to an area hospital with a life-threatening brain injury as well as a skull fracture and subdural hematomas, according to police records.
Ariel, who remained in the hospital on March 27, was sitting in the third row of seats near the spot 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 she did not sustain any serious injuries. She is sitting in the second row of the vehicle.
“The Kansas City Chiefs organization remains unwavering about all those affected by this tragic accident,” the Chiefs said in a statement Monday after the charges were announced. “Our prayers are focused on Ariel’s ongoing healing and recovery. The Chiefs are in regular contact with the designated representative of the family during this challenging 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 wreckage. Both were also checked by emergency personnel.
The crash 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 accident. According to a possible causal statement, he said he looked over his left shoulder “to evaluate traffic so he could merge”.
Britt Reid said the Impala has no lights on, so he does not see it.
According to a application for warrant 41 Action News obtained the day after the crash, Reid told a KCPD official at the scene he was drinking two to three drinks.
An officer at the KCPD DUI unit smells alcohol in Reid’s breath and says his eyes are red and bloodshot. Tests performed at the scene also indicated that Reid was under the influence.
Britt Reid was operated on after the accidentaccording to his father. The probable cause indicates that he “suffered a blunt trauma injury to his groin that had to undergo emergency surgery”.
Six days after the crash, Chiefs Officer Britt Reid said was no longer with the team, who did not renew his contract. He has worked for the Chiefs since his father joined the organization before the 2013 season.
The NFL is monitoring the situation.
“We’ve been keeping a close eye on all developments in the case that are still being reviewed from the league’s personal behavior policy,” said NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy.
Britt Reid previously spent time in a Pennsylvania jail. aim a 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 an instrument of crime in connection with the incident, according to Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, court records.
Britt Reid was re-arrested and charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia on 23 August 2007.
His connection was revoked in the first case after the second arrest.
Finally, Britt Reid was sentenced to eight to 23 months in prison for the first incident and one to six months imprisonment for the second. He was released in February 2008 and fined more than $ 10,000 in total.
Britt Reid, who graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia, began his NFL career as an intern at the Eagles in his father’s staff in 2009.
He spent 2013 and 2014 as a quality control coach at Kansas City before being promoted to assistant coach in 2015.
He served as Chiefs’ defensive coach from 2016-’18 before switching to the line-up balance coach for the last two seasons.
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