Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ participant Rashee Rice was the driving force of one in every of two dashing sports activities vehicles who left after inflicting a chain-reaction crash on a Dallas freeway over the weekend, the huge receiver’s legal professional stated Thursday.
Why Rice left the crash Saturday was “an excellent query that’s nonetheless being investigated”, stated Rice’s legal professional, Texas state senator Royce West, however he declined to elaborate. West expects expenses to be filed towards Rice, who was driving a Lamborghini sport utility automobile, he stated at a information convention with out his consumer.
“He’s a younger man that made a mistake,” West stated Thursday, including that Rice’s “coronary heart goes out” to those that had been injured. The crash concerned the Lamborghini, a Corvette and 4 different autos and left 4 folks with minor accidents, police stated.
The driving force of the Corvette additionally left with out figuring out whether or not anybody wanted medical consideration or offering their info, police stated. The Corvette belongs to Rice, West stated Thursday, however no info has been launched on the driving force.
Rice posted to his Instagram Story on Wednesday that he was taking “full duty” for his half within the wreck.
Police have stated the drivers of the Corvette and Lamborghini had been dashing within the far left lane after they misplaced management and the Lamborghini traveled onto the shoulder and hit the middle median wall, inflicting the chain collision.
West stated that Rice, who’s 23, will “do the whole lot in his energy to convey their life again to as regular as doable when it comes to accidents, when it comes to property injury”.
Investigators are interviewing witnesses, victims and others who might have been concerned, police stated Thursday.
Rice was leasing the Lamborghini from The Basic Life-style, stated Kyle Coker, an legal professional for the Dallas-based unique automotive rental firm.
Rice was born in Philadelphia however grew up within the Fort Price, Texas, suburb of North Richland Hills. He performed faculty soccer at close by SMU, the place a breakout senior season in 2022 put the huge receiver on the radar of NFL groups. The Chiefs chosen him within the second spherical of final 12 months’s draft, and he shortly grew to become one of many solely reliable choices of their passing recreation.
