Kansas City Chiefs’ Rashee Rice cooperating with authorities after crash with speeding luxury cars

Kansas Metropolis Chiefs large receiver Rashee Rice is cooperating with authorities after his alleged involvement in a high-speed crash in Dallas, his legal professional mentioned.

Two luxurious vehicles have been concerned within the crash and the occupants of the automobiles walked away from the scene, authorities mentioned.

Rice “will take all mandatory steps to deal with this example responsibly,” his legal professional, Royce West, mentioned in a press release. West is a Democratic state senator whose district consists of a part of the Dallas space.

“On behalf of Rashee Rice, his ideas are with everybody impacted by the car accident on Saturday,” West mentioned within the assertion.

Officers have been known as to North Central Expressway in Dallas at 6:25 p.m. Saturday after two dashing drivers misplaced management and crashed, “inflicting a series response collision involving 4 different automobiles.”

Police instructed The Dallas Morning Information on Sunday that the drivers have been in a Corvette and a Lamborghini and that the Lamborghini veered onto the shoulder and hit the expressway’s median wall.

The Morning Information reported that one of many vehicles is leased or registered to Rice and {that a} Dallas police name sheet seen by the newspaper lists Rice as the one who authorities consider was behind the wheel of the Corvette.

Police haven’t recognized any of the individuals concerned within the crash.

“The occupants of the Lamborghini and the Corvette all ran from the scene with out stopping to find out if anybody wanted medical assist or offering their info,” police instructed the newspaper.

No main accidents have been reported, in response to police, however two individuals have been handled on the scene, and two others have been taken to an area hospital.

Video posted on social media by Kayla Quinn, who mentioned she was in one of many vehicles that was hit, seems to indicate the injury to the motive force’s facet of her car. A Fb put up from somebody who mentioned she is Quinn’s mom mentioned Quinn’s 4-year-old son was within the automobile.

Video taken by a bystander and shared on social media by Quinn’s mom exhibits a number of individuals strolling away from the scene. The bystander asks them whether or not they’re all proper and whether or not they’re “simply gonna depart it.”

Legal professional Marc C. Lenahan is representing one of many victims of the crash and serving to a second, he instructed NBC Information.

“From their perspective, they have been simply driving alongside,” Lenahan mentioned. “Certainly one of them was headed to dinner with family and friends at 6:30, like most of us have been on a Saturday evening earlier than Easter with, you recognize, individuals on the town.”

That is once they noticed “a flash” behind them, he mentioned.

“After which abruptly, they’re spinning and getting T-boned,” Lenahan mentioned.

Rice, who grew up within the Dallas space, was drafted by the Chiefs within the second spherical of the 2023 NFL draft and was a part of the staff’s Tremendous Bowl win in February.

He logged 39 yards on six receptions in the course of the Tremendous Bowl, a formidable achievement for a rookie receiver in a hard-fought championship recreation in opposition to the San Francisco 49ers.

The NFL wouldn’t particularly touch upon the crash, however mentioned it is normal “to watch developments and join with the staff” any time there’s an incident involving a participant.

The Chiefs haven’t responded to a request for remark.

In an interview on “Mundo within the Morning” on Kansas Metropolis radio station KCMO, Chiefs president Mark Donovan mentioned the staff will “react accordingly” after all of the info are gathered.

“In all these conditions it’s a must to wait till you could have all of the info, and admittedly, we don’t have all of the info at this level,” Donovan instructed Pete Mundo on Monday. “The one comforting indisputable fact that we do have is that there was a multi-car crash in Texas, in Dallas, and luckily, it doesn’t seem that anybody was damage, and we must always be glad about that. We’ll resolve it, we’ll collect the info, and we’ll react accordingly.”