Shanahan takes responsibility for car accident
Chris Simms and Mike Florio discuss Kyle Shanahan's public comments about his July 14 car accident, as the head coach said the crash was his fault.
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It's a Wednesday edition of PFT Live, July the 29th.
All camps are open.
And there was a Kyle Shanahan development yesterday because he decided to speak to reporters.
And I think, and correct me if I'm wrong, not that you need the invitation to do it, not that I would care- 'cause I always wanna be as right as I possibly can be.
But there was the item from Grant Cohn of SI on Monday night that cited public records that said Kyle was determined to be holding and using his cellphone at the time of the accident, that determined the other driver was at fault for the accident.
The other driver had crossed the center line.
And Kyle came out yesterday and basically said- Yeah "They got that wrong."
Yeah.
"It was a clerical error."
Right.
"I was at fault.
I was at fault.
My phone fell between the seat.
I briefly looked away to go get it, and I caused the accident."
There's the quote.
"I was going 20 miles an hour.
I was not on my phone.
I dropped my phone.
It was stuck in my seats.
It's on my lap, and it slid off, and I went down to look for it and took my eyes off the road for two seconds.
And as I was coming up, the airbags hit me in the face.
They broke my nose, and then," they said, "the visor really gashed me.
I took my eyes off the road looking for my phone, and my car veered into someone."
That's what he told reporters yesterday, Chris.
Yeah, right, right, you know, the visor thing, like I told you, that was the huge gash he had right on his eyelid for, like, 40 stitches, where I made the comment, like, he almost lost his eye.
But this is totally consistent with, with, with, you know, my buddy Kyle Shanahan has told me from the very start, and told all of my friends and everybody.
He never at one point did not say it was not his fault.
And, you know, again, I think when, when he woke up yesterday, he saw the Grant, the Grant Cohn thing, and then he saw you write something on Pro Football Talk, right?
And I know he was bothered.
He was bothered by it, you know, because he knows he was at fault.
He's very sensitive to this, this, the, the female who he got into the car accident with.
He really is about it.
He feels horrible.
Of course, he knows how dangerous the situation possibly could have been there.
So he finally, even though he's not thinking right, and he's still trying to adjust to because the, the concussion has him foggy, I think he knew.
He's like, "I, I gotta clear this up."
It was bothering him.
I mean, he had a pit in his stomach all yesterday morning, and he finally got everybody together, and I think they went into his office, and he kinda just told them flat out so they could hear the story, and, you know, now everybody knows the exact truth.
But, yeah, crazy situation, as we talked about, and, you know, he handled it just the way I thought my friend would handle it, with truth and just being right up front with it, and he doesn't want any more rumors or talk about it.
He's gonna tell you exactly what happened there.
But all of this came directly from two things.
First of all, a clerical error- Yeah which is just- Crazy, crazy h- like, we're talking about fairly important information.
You get the information properly recorded in these public databases because people are gonna see it, like Grant Cohn did, and people are going to share it, like he did, and then others are going to take the information that comes from the public database- Yeah and they're gonna share it- Yeah and that's gonna create this issue.
So it's fairly important to get it right.
It falls into the old you had one job category.
Get the information as it relates to these accidents properly recorded in the dat-
