KANSAS CITY, Missouri – A family lawyer for a 5-year-old girl seriously injured in an accident involving former Kansas City Chiefs technical assistant Britt Reid says the girl suffered a devastating brain injury that left her unable to speak or speak. walk.
Ariel Young probably has permanent brain damage “that she will endure for the rest of her life,” said attorney Tom Porto in an interview broadcast on ABC’s “Good Morning America” program on Tuesday.
“We will defend the most serious charges and the most serious sentence Britt could ever receive,” said Porto.
The girl has been hospitalized since the February 4 accident, when police say Reid’s truck crashed into two vehicles on the side of a highway entrance ramp near the Kansas City NFL training complex near Arrowhead Stadium, injuring Ariel and another child inside one of the cars.
Reid is the son of Chiefs coach Andy Reid, and was the coach of the team’s external linebackers at the time of the crash. He was initially placed on administrative leave immediately after the accident, but is no longer hired by the team after his contract was not renewed in the days after the accident. He did not travel with the team to Tampa, Florida, for the February 7 Super Bowl, which Kansas City lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Police said Britt Reid admitted investigators to have had “two or three drinks” along with the prescribed Adderall before the accident.
Authorities said they are still awaiting toxicological reports on the case and no charges have been filed.