Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid first spoke publicly about his son’s car accident in which a 5-year-old girl was in critical condition, saying on Sunday, “My heart is bleeding for everyone involved.”
“My heart goes out to all those involved in the accident, especially the family with the little girl fighting for her life,” said Reid Sunday night after the Chiefs lost Super Bowl LV to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 9/31. “I can’t comment on it any more than what I am here. So the questions you have, I’m going to have to dismiss them; but from a human standpoint, my heart bleeds to everyone involved.”
Reid’s son Britt, the Chiefs’ outer linebackers coach, was involved in the three-car crash in Kansas City on Thursday night. He did not travel with the Chiefs to Tampa, Florida, for the Super Bowl.
Britt Reid admitted to police that he was driving the vehicle that collided with two other cars, including the one with the 5-year-old in it. The police report said the driver of the vehicle sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was investigated for possible limitations.
A Kansas City Police Department officer said Reid’s eyes were bloodshot and the officer smelled “a faint odor of alcoholic beverages,” according to a statement from the officer obtained by ESPN. The statement went on to say that Reid told the officer he had two to three drinks and that he was also taking the prescription Adderall.
Asked if the incident was a distraction for him or for the Chiefs, Andy Reid said, “We had the game plan laid out the week before. The distraction wasn’t a distraction as far as the game plan was concerned. That was already in and how we went about it started and moved on.
“From a human point of view it’s difficult. From a football point of view I don’t think that was a problem.