Britt Reid, son of Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid and the team’s external linebacker coach, was involved in a multicar accident on Thursday night that left a 5-year-old child with fatal injuries, according to a statement from team and police report.
Reid, who was scheduled to leave with the Chiefs on Saturday for the Super Bowl LV against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, must now not travel to Tampa, Florida, a source told ESPN.
According to an incident report provided by the Kansas City Missouri Police Department, a car ran out of gas on a ramp to Interstate 435 in Kansas City on Thursday night. After the driver asked his relatives for help, a second car arrived, also parked on the access ramp.
According to the police report, a third car, which the Kansas City television station KSHB says was driven by Britt Reid, came and hit first the left front of the damaged vehicle and then the rear of the second vehicle, where the Uma elderly child was in the back seat with a 4-year-old child, who was also taken by ambulance to a local hospital, but with injuries that were not life-threatening.
The police said Reid acknowledged to the police that he was driving the third car, according to a search warrant. The police report said the driver of the third car had suffered life-threatening injuries and was being investigated for possible damage.
According to the search warrant obtained by the KSHB, a KCPD official said that Reid’s eyes were bloodshot and that the officer smelled “a moderate odor of alcohol.” The warrant went on to say that Reid told the policeman that he had drunk two to three drinks and that he was also taking Adderall as prescribed.
“The organization was informed of an accident involving several vehicles involving Outside Linebackers coach Britt Reid,” the Chiefs said in a statement on Friday. “We are in the process of gathering information and we will have no further comments at this time. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone involved.”
Reid, who was scheduled to leave with the Chiefs on Saturday for the Super Bowl LV against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, must now not travel to Tampa, Florida, a source told ESPN.
No one involved in the multicar accident is identified by name in the police report.
The driver of the disabled vehicle was in the car at the time of the first collision, but was not injured, the police report said, and the driver of the second vehicle and an adult passenger in the front seat were also unhurt.
Reid, 35, joined the Chiefs in 2013 as a defensive assistant coach. He became assistant coach of the defensive line in 2015, coach of the defensive line in 2016. He became coach of the external linebackers in 2019.