5-year-old girl wakes up from coma after car accident involving former Chiefs coach Britt Reid

Ariel Young, a 5-year-old girl who was injured in a car accident involving the then Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, came out of the coma, according to a GoFundMe page that provided updates on the child’s condition.

The fundraiser, which is being managed by Tiffany Verhulst, the child’s aunt, said on Monday that “Ariel is awake”. The girl was seriously injured and a 4-year-old child suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the collision, reported KCTV, a CBS affiliate.

The update comes more than a week since the February 4 accident involving Reid, the son of Chiefs’ head coach Andy Reid. Police said young Reid’s truck ran over a car that ran out of gas and then ran over 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.

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 drunk, a police officer said Reid told him he had drunk “2 to 3 shots,” KCTV reported.

The accident occurred three days before the Chiefs lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Florida.

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 coached external linebackers for the past two seasons. After the accident, he was placed on administrative leave for the duration of his contract, which supposedly expired after the Super Bowl and now he’s no longer with the team. The team previously said in a statement that, “Our focus remains on Ariel Young and his family.”

The Reid family has dealt with legal and drug issues in the past. In 2007, a judge compared Andy Reid’s home to a “drug emporium“and called Britt Reid an” addict “after sentencing him and his brother, Garrett Reid, to prison for separate incidents. Garrett Reid died in 2012.

Jordan Freiman contributed to this report.