4th person sues Chiefs’ Rashee Rice in connection with 2024 high-speed crash in Dallas

A fourth person is suing Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice in connection with a multivehicle hit-and-run on a Dallas highway last year, court records show.

Kayla Quinn is seeking as much as $1 million for mental anguish and severe injuries she says she sustained from the collision, according to the lawsuit filed in Dallas County in early May. Quinn’s attorney, Jim Francis, said Rice’s conduct was egregious and showed “callous disregard” for the victims.

While some hurt in the crash sought medical treatment, Francis said Rice and others showed “no concern” when they “marched off the highway.”

Rice’s attorney, state Sen. Royce West, and an attorney for Theodore “Teddy” Knox — Rice’s former Southern Methodist University teammate who is also named in the suit — could not immediately be reached by phone.

This is the third lawsuit filed against Rice and Knox by people who say they were hurt in the March 30, 2024, crash.

According to police, Rice was driving 119 mph in a rented Lamborghini Urus and Knox was in a Chevrolet Corvette going 116 mph when they lost control at about 6:20 p.m. on North Central Expressway, near University Boulevard, and caused a chain-reaction crash with four other vehicles. Police accused Rice and Knox of fleeing, while victims waited for help and were stranded on the highway for hours.

The men turned themselves in to police a week later.

According to the 10-page court filing, Quinn was “prudently” driving while her son was in the back seat at the time of the collision. She previously told The Dallas Morning News that the crash left her Hyundai Accent “undrivable.” The suit does not detail Quinn’s injuries.

Rice and Knox “intentionally and knowingly evaded assisting those injured by their outrageous conduct and absconded from the scene,” the lawsuit states.

In the days after the crash, Rice wrote on social media that he took “full responsibility,” and his attorney said the NFL player would “do everything in his power” to bring normalcy back to the victims’ lives.

But in the year since, Rice has faced little culpability. The former SMU football star is awaiting eight charges to be presented to a Dallas County grand jury, which will decide if the criminal cases move forward.

Rice and Knox face two other lawsuits, including one by Edvard Petrovskiy and Irina Gromova, a Dallas couple who say the crash caused them brain trauma, lacerations to the face, contusions, disfigurement and internal bleeding.

That case is headed to trial in June, according to court records.