Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid has been charged in connection to a car crash that left a girl critically injured.
Reid, 35, was charged on Monday with driving while intoxicated, a class D felony that would result in a maximum sentence of seven years imprisonment if he is convicted.
The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office said Reid “operated a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, and acted with criminal negligence by driving at an excessive rate of speed.”
Reid, who was the team’s outside linebackers coach at the time of the accident in early February, is expected to turn himself in and be booked on Monday, according to ESPN. Prosecutors have requested a $100,000/10% bond, and they want him to be placed on a GPS monitor as well as alcohol monitoring.
Analysis of the crash revealed that Reid was driving nearly 84 miles per hour in a posted 65 mph zone just 1.9 seconds before the crash, according to a probable cause statement form filed Monday by the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office. Shortly after the crash, his blood alcohol concentration was .113, per the report. The police previously said that Reid admitted to having “two or three drinks” along with prescribed Adderall before the crash.
The crash occurred on Feb. 4. Reid’s vehicle hit two vehicles on the side of a highway entrance ramp. Ariel Young, 5, suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash.
“Ariel remains in the hospital, she is getting a little better each day but she still has a long road to recovery,” an update from March 27 on a GoFundMe page dedicated to Young reads.
Reid is no longer employed by the team. He was placed on administrative leave following the accident, but his contract has since expired, and the team did not renew it.
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Reid’s father, Andy Reid, is the team’s head coach.
“My heart goes out to all those who were involved in the accident, in particular the family with the little girl who’s fighting for her life,” the elder Reid said at the time. “I can’t comment on it any more than what I am here. So, the questions you have, I’m going to have to turn those down, but, just from a human standpoint, my heart bleeds for everybody involved in that.”
