Chiefs Wide Receiver Rashee Rice Sentenced To 30 Days In Jail For Highway Racing Crash

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice was sentenced to 30 days successful jailhouse connected Thursday aft authorities said he and different speeding driver caused a chain-reaction clang that near aggregate group injured connected a Dallas road past year.

The Dallas County territory attorney’s agency said Rice pleaded blameworthy to 2 third-degree felony charges of collision involving superior bodily wounded and racing connected a road causing bodily wounded successful nan March 2024 crash. As portion of a plea agreement, Rice was sentenced to 5 years of deferred probation and 30 days successful jailhouse arsenic a information of his probation, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said he was besides required to salary nan victims for their out-of-pocket aesculapian expenses, which totaled astir $115,000.

Rice was driving a Lamborghini Urus SUV astatine 119 mph erstwhile he made “multiple fierce maneuvers astir traffic” and struck different vehicles, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said that aft nan crash, Rice failed to cheque connected nan welfare of those successful nan different vehicles and fled connected foot.

The news merchandise from prosecutors included a connection from Rice that was released by his attorney. Rice said successful nan connection that he’s had “a batch of sleepless nights reasoning astir nan damages that my actions caused, and I will proceed moving wrong my intends to make judge that everyone impacted will beryllium made whole.”

The connection continued: “I americium profoundly sorry for nan beingness damages to personification and property. I afloat apologize for nan harm I caused to guiltless drivers and their families.”