Ariel Young, a 5-year-old girl who was injured in a car accident with the then-Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, has come out of her coma, according to a GoFundMe page that provided updates on the child’s condition.
The fundraiser, which is run by Tiffany Verhulst, the child’s aunt, said on Monday that “Ariel is awake.” The girl was seriously injured and a 4-year-old child sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the collision, KCTV reported.
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The update comes more than a week since the February 4 crash involving Reid, the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid. Police said the younger Reid’s truck hit a car that ran out of gas and then hit another car driven by the relatives of the driver of the first car. A woman in the second car told police she had crawled out of the vehicle and asked Reid to call 911 because she lost her phone in the crash, KCTV said.
Police said in a search warrant that when they arrived at the scene, Reid smelled of alcohol and his eyes were bloodshot, KCTV said. When asked if he had been drinking, an officer 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 Super Bowl LV in Tampa, Florida.
Reid joined the Chiefs in 2013, the same year his father was hired as a head coach and defensive quality control coach. Reid has coached outside linebackers for the past two seasons. After the crash, he was placed on administrative leave for the duration of his contract reportedly expired after the Super Bowl and he’s no longer with the team. The team said in a statement earlier, “Our focus remains on Ariel Young and her family.”
The Reid family has dealt with drugs and legal issues in the past. In 2007, a judge compared Andy Reid’s home to a “drug emporiumand called Britt Reid an “addict” after sentencing him and his brother, Garrett Reid, to jail time for separate incidents. Garrett Reid died in 2012.
Jordan Freiman contributed to this report.