Kansas City officials announced Tuesday that outside linebacker coach Britt Reid has been put on administrative leave after his involvement in a car accident that injured a 5-year-old girl. The crash occurred Feb. 4, three days before the Chiefs lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV.
A 5-year-old boy was seriously injured and a four-year-old boy suffered life-threatening injuries, according to CBS affiliate KCTV-TV.
“We are still in the process of gathering information about the incident and will continue to assist local authorities as requested,” the chiefs said in a statement. “Our focus remains with Ariel Young and her family. We have turned to the family to offer them our support and resources during this difficult time and we will continue to pray for their recovery.”
Reid, the son of head coach Andy Reid, was involved in a multi-vehicle accident on the night of February 4th. 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.
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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 injected, according to KCTV. When asked if he had drunk, an agent said Reid told him he had “2-3 drinks,” KCTV reports.
Police have seized Reid’s cell phone to try to determine if he may have been using it before the crash, according to KCTV.
Reid has dealt with legal and drug issues in the past. In 2007, a judge compared the Reids’ house to a “emporium of drugs“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 head coach, as a quality control defensive coach. Reid has been an outside defense coach for the past two seasons.