Dallas Car Crash Victims Seek Justice, Sue Chiefs’ Rashee Rice for $1M+
DEBARYLIFE – Rashee Rice of the Kansas City Chiefs is being sued for more than $1 million following the high-speed, multi-vehicle accident collision that occurred in Dallas last month.
Eight criminal accusations, including one case of aggravated assault, one count of collision involving serious injury, and six counts of collision involving injury, are also brought against Rice, 23. The driver of the second vehicle, Theodore Knox, 21, is charged with the same offenses.
Irina Gromova and Edvard Petrovskiy filed the lawsuit on April 11. It makes accusations of carelessness on the parts of Knox, who was purportedly operating a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray that Rice had leased, and Rice, who was operating a Lamborghini Urus.
The 2022 white Lexus 350 SUV owned by Petrovskiy and Gromova claimed that when Rice and Knox lost control of their cars, it spun into the middle of the road at a high rate of speed and came to a stop.
In their lawsuit, Petrovskiy and Gromova seek damages for injuries sustained in the collision, which include disfigurement, multiple contusions, internal bleeding, brain trauma, stitches for facial lacerations, and other injuries that “may only be fully revealed over the course of medical treatment.”
In addition to the property damage they incurred, which the suit determined to be worth $71,122.69, the plaintiffs also mentioned the possibility of future wage loss and emotional distress.
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According to Petrovskiy and Gromova’s lawsuit, Rice and Knox raced “at extreme speeds well over the speed limit,” and their departure from the collision rendered it “abundantly evident that no goodwill was displayed at the scene.”
The plaintiffs claimed that by leaving the scene, “the opportunity to gather evidence about Rice’s and Knox’s mental state and level of intoxication from any intoxicating substances would be forever diminished or lost,” even though Rice later apologized on social media, which the lawsuit referred to as a “moral awakening.”
The lawsuit claims that “the Defendants’ flight from the scene creates circumstances that could only be motivated by collusion to conceal the whole truth and evade full accountability.”
The plaintiffs are requesting a jury trial.
Andy Reid, the head coach of the Chiefs, stated on Monday that he has spoken with Rice and is keeping an eye on the developments regarding the case’s legal aspects.