Andy Reid’s son was released early from his DUI conviction. The little girl he put in a coma isn’t so lucky

Back in 2021, Britt Reid, then the Chiefs’ linebackers coach and son of celebrated Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, left team headquarters drunk, smashed his truck into two cars stopped on the side of the interstate at 84 mph, and put a five-year old Ariel Young into a coma. Young sustained a traumatic brain injury, and five others, including Reid were injured in the crash. Two hours after the incident, Reid’s blood alcohol content was still .113.

When law enforcement arrived at the scene, Reid told officers he had two to three drinks in addition to taking his prescription Adderall. Though police say they saw obvious signs of impairment, Reid was taken to the hospital for surgery on his groin and was not arrested.

Reid wouldn’t be arrested for a full two months, while local cops “investigated” the crash. As a lawyer who frequently represented people accused of driving drunk, I can assure you that that is not how things typically go. DUI arrests, which are big business for some municipalities because of the ease of prosecution and the heavy fines imposed, are more of an “arrest first and ask questions later” crime, and never once in all my time in DUI court did I come across a person who caused a crash with serious injuries who wasn’t immediately arrested and, sometimes, handcuffed to their hospital bed.