Chiefs’ Rashee Rice, SMU’s Teddy Knox Sued for $1M After March Car Crash

Timothy Rapp@@TRappaRTFeatured Columnist IVApril 15, 2024

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Two of the victims of the March 30 car accident involving Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice and SMU cornerback Teddy Knox are suing the players for $10 million, according to Jesse Newell of the Kansas City Star.

Per Olivia Johnson of Fox4 Kansas City, the lawsuit states that Irina Gromova and Edvard Petrovskiy suffered “trauma to the brain, lacerations to the face requiring stitches, multiple contusions about the body, disfigurement, internal bleeding, and other internal and external injuries that may only be fully revealed over the course of medical treatment.”

Per that report, Gromova and Petrovskiy are suing for “negligence and punitive damages, which includes physical and mental harm, property damages, costs of medical prevention and care in the future, loss of earnings, potential harm to their safety and welfare, along with several other claims.”

Police say Rice, 23, was driving a leased Lamborghini SUV at 119 mph when he crashed and caused a six-car accident. Knox was driving a Corvette in Rice’s name and allegedly was going 116 mph before slowing down to 91 mph 1.5 seconds before the crash.

Both Rice, Knox and the occupants in their respective vehicles fled the scene. Both turned themselves into police last week after warrants were issued for their arrest. Nobody else has been arrested or charged in the incident.

Both Rice and Knox have been charged with one count of aggravated assault (a second-degree felony), one count of collision involving serious bodily injury (a third-degree felony) and six counts of collision causing injury.

Chiefs head coach Andy Reid told reporters on Monday that Rice would be a virtual participant in the team’s offseason conditioning program, but didn’t offer any further update on how the organization planned to address the situation.

“I’m leaving that, like we’ve done most of these, for the law enforcement part to take place and then we will go from there with that,” he said.

“We continue to monitor developments in the matter,” chief NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk last week.