The Kansas City Chiefs announced Tuesday that outside linebackers coach Britt Reid has been placed on administrative leave following his involvement in a car accident that injured a 5-year-old girl. The accident occurred on February 4, three days before the Chiefs lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV.
A 5-year-old boy was seriously injured and a four-year-old boy suffered non-fatal injuries, reports CBS affiliate KCTV-TV.
“We are still in the process of gathering information on the incident and will continue to assist local authorities as requested,” the Chiefs said in a statement. “Our focus continues to be Ariel Young and her family. We have reached out to the family to offer our support and resources during this difficult time, and we will continue to pray for her recovery.”
Reid, the son of Chiefs coach Andy Reid, was involved in a multi-vehicle accident the night of February 4. KCTV reports that police said Reid’s truck struck a car that had run out of gas and then struck another car that was being driven by relatives of the driver of the first car. A woman in the second car told police she got out of the vehicle and asked Reid to call 911 because she had lost her phone in the accident, according to KCTV.
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Police said in a search warrant that when they arrived at the scene, Reid smelled of alcohol and his eyes were bloodshot, according to KCTV. When asked if he had been drinking, an officer said Reid told him he had had “2-3 drinks,” reports KCTV.
Police seized Reid’s cell phone to try to determine if he may have been using it before the accident, according to KCTV.
Reid has dealt with legal and drug issues in the past. In 2007, a judge compared the Reid house to a “drug emporium“and called Reid an” addict “after sentencing him and his brother, Garrett Reid, to prison for separate incidents.
Reid joined the Chiefs in 2013, the same year his father was hired as a head coach, as a defensive quality control coach. Reid has been an outside linebacker coach for the past two seasons.