Former Chiefs assistant coach pleads not guilty in crash that injured 5-year-old girl
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (NewsNation Now) — Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid pleaded not guilty Monday to critically injuring a young girl in a crash, and the judge allowed him to resume driving with restrictions.
The judge modified his bond during his arraignment to allow him to have a special interlock device installed that requires him to pass a breathalyzer test before his vehicle will start.
Reid, the son of Chiefs Coach Andy Reid, was charged with driving while intoxicated causing serious physical injury in April, two months after he hit two cars on an Interstate 435 entrance ramp near Arrowhead Stadium. The collision happened just three days before the Chiefs played in the Super Bowl in Tampa Bay, Florida. Police said Reid was drunk and was leaving the Cheif’s practice facility before the February crash.
One of the vehicles he hit had stalled because of a dead battery and the second was owned by a cousin who had arrived to help, according to charging documents. A child in one of the cars, 5-year-old Ariel Young, suffered a traumatic brain injury.
A Kansas City police officer reported he could smell alcohol, and Reid’s eyes were bloodshot and red, according to the documents.
He was driving about 84 mph shortly before the collision and had a blood alcohol level of 0.113 two hours after the crash, police said. The legal limit is 0.08.
Reid, who underwent emergency surgery for a groin injury after the crash, was placed on administrative leave. The Chiefs then allowed his contract to expire, ending his employment with the team. The NFL is conducting a review and investigation into the incident.
Reid admitted he had two to three drinks and has an Adderall prescription.
The next hearing will be a pretrial conference on July 22. No trial date has been set.
Young was transported from the crash with life-threatening injuries. According to Tiffany Verhulst, who has been providing updates via a GoFundMe page for the 5-year-old, Young returned home in April after roughly two months in the hospital.
The Associated Press and NewsNation affiliate WDAF contributed to this report.