Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid is expected to enter a guilty plea over his 2021 car crash that seriously injured a five-year-old girl, according to Mike Coutee of Fox 4 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Reid, the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, was charged with felony driving while intoxicated in April 2021.
Police say Reid was drunk when he left the Chiefs’ practice facility three days before the team was set to play in Super Bowl LV against the Tampa Bay Bucs.
Cops say he was traveling 83.9 mph, nearly 20 mph above the speed limit, prior to his Dodge Ram colliding with two cars that had stopped on the side of an entrance ramp. The driver of the Traverse was assisting a family member who ran out of gas in a Chevrolet Impala and was stalled on the side of the road. Prosecutors said he had a blood alcohol concentration of .113 around two hours after the crash.
Ariel Young suffered a severe traumatic brain injury, a parietal fracture, brain contusions, and subdural hematomas in the crash. Tom Porto, an attorney for the Young family, said in the aftermath the girl will “endure a traumatic brain injury for the rest of her life” and was “functioning like a baby.”
In November 2021, the Chiefs reached an agreement with Young’s family to pay for her medical care.
The team declined to renew Reid’s contract after it expired in 2021.
