Kansas City Chiefs announced on Tuesday that outside linebacker coach Britt Reid was put on administrative leave after being involved in a car accident that injured a 5-year-old girl. The crash occurred on February 4, three days before the Chiefs lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl LV.
A 5-year-old child was seriously injured and a 4-year-old suffered non-life-threatening injuries, reports CBS affiliated KCTV-TV.
“We are continuing to collect information about the incident and will continue to assist local authorities as requested,” the chiefs said in a note. “Our focus remains on Ariel Young and his family. We reach out to the family to offer our support and resources to them during this difficult time and we will continue to pray for their recovery. ”
Reid, son of Chiefs’ head coach Andy Reid, was involved in a multi-vehicle accident on the night of February 4. KCTV reports that police said Reid’s truck crashed into a car that ran out of gas and then crashed into 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 drunk, a policeman said Reid told him that he had drunk “2-3 times”, reports KCTV.
Police seized Reid’s cell phone to try to determine if he was using it before the accident, according to KCTV.
Reid has dealt with drugs and legal issues in the past. In 2007, a judge compared the Reids home to a “drug emporium“and called Reid” addicted “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 coached external linebackers for the past two seasons.