Ariel Young, a 5-year-old girl who was injured in a car accident that affected then-assistant Kansas City Chiefs coach Britt Reid, has come out of his coma, according to a GoFundMe page that provided updates on the child’s condition.
The fundraiser, led by Tiffany Verhulst, the boy’s aunt, said Monday that “Ariel is awake.” The girl was seriously injured and a 4-year-old boy suffered non-life-threatening injuries during the collision, CBS affiliate KCTV reported.
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The update comes more than a week after the Feb. 4 crash that involved Reid, the son of head coach Andy Reid. Police said the young Reid’s truck crashed into a car that ran out of gas and hit another car 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 crash, according to KCTV.
Police said in a search warrant that when he arrived at the scene, Reid smelled of alcohol and his eyes were injected with blood, according to KCTV. When asked if he had drunk, an agent said Reid told him he had “2-3 drinks,” KCTV reported.
The crash occurred three days before the Chiefs lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl LV of Tampa, Florida.
Reid joined the Chiefs in 2013, the same year his father was hired as head coach, as a quality control defensive coach. Reid has been an outside defense coach for the past two seasons. After the accident, he was placed on administrative leave during the term of his contract allegedly expired after the Super Bowl and now he is no longer with the team. The team said earlier in a statement that “our focus remains with Ariel Young and her family.”
The Reid family has in the past dealt with legal issues about drugs and drugs. In 2007, a judge compared Andy Reid’s house to a “emporium of drugs“and described Britt Reid as” addicted “after sentencing him and his brother, Garrett Reid, to prison for separate incidents. Garrett Reid he died in 2012.
Jordan Freiman contributed to this report.