DALLAS– Kansas City Chiefs player Rashee Rice was the driver of one of two speeding sports cars that took off after causing a chain reaction crash on a Dallas highway this weekend, the wide receiver’s attorney said Thursday.
Why Rice left the crash Saturday was “a good question that is still under investigation,” said Rice’s attorney, Sen. Royce West, but he declined to elaborate. West expects charges will be filed against Rice, who was driving a Lamborghini SUV. , he said at a press conference without his client.
“He’s a young man who made a mistake,” West said Thursday, adding that Rice’s “heart goes out” to those who were injured. The crash involved the Lamborghini, a Corvette and four other vehicles, which left four people with minor injuries, police said.
The driver of the Corvette also left without determining if anyone needed medical attention or providing his information, police said. The Corvette belongs to Rice, West said Thursday, but no information about the driver has been released.
Rice posted on his Instagram Story on Wednesday that he took “full responsibility” for his part in the wreck.
Police have said the drivers of the Corvette and Lamborghini were speeding in the far left lane when they lost control and the Lamborghini veered onto the shoulder and struck the center median wall, causing the pileup.
West said Rice, who is 23, “will do everything in his power to get their lives back to as normal as possible in terms of injuries and property damage.”
Investigators are interviewing witnesses, victims and others who may have been involved, police said Thursday.
Rice leased the Lamborghini from The Classic Lifestyle, said Kyle Coker, an attorney for the Dallas-based exotic car rental company.
Rice was born in Philadelphia, but grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, a suburb of North Richland Hills. He attended college at nearby SMU, where a breakout senior season in 2022 put the wide receiver on the radar of NFL teams. The Chiefs selected him in the second round of last year’s draft, and he quickly became one of the few reliable options in their passing game.
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Associated Press sports writer Dave Skretta contributed to this report from Kansas City, Missouri.
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