5-year-old girl injured in crash by ex-Chiefs coach Britt Reid likely has permanent brain damage: lawyer
The 5-year-old girl who was injured in a crash with former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid is still unable to speak or walk.
Ariel Young likely has permanent damage “that she will endure for the rest of her life,” Tom Porto, the family’s lawyer, said on “Good Morning America” Tuesday.
Ariel was in one of the two cars that Reid, then the Chiefs’ linebackers coach, crashed into just outside the team’s facility on Feb. 4, according to the Kansas City Police Department. One of the cars had run out of gas and the other was stopped to help.
Reid, 35, admitted to police that he had “two or three drinks” and took his prescription Adderall before the crash, according to a search warrant obtained by KSHB.
No charges have been filed yet, but Porto said he plans to fight for “the most serious charges and the most serious sentence that Britt could ever receive.”
“We don’t have the toxicology back, I don’t know what it is going to be. What I do know are the statements that he made to police that night,” he told “Good Morning America.”
“If you have two or three drinks, and then you get behind the wheel of a car, you are likely over the legal limit.”
Reid’s contract with the Chiefs expired after the season and the team did not re-hire him.
