Question: Which American football linebacker, who was honorably inducted into the The Chiefs hall of fame following his death from severe injuries sustained in a car accident in 2000?
Context: Ernie Triplett (1906 Barry, Illinois – 5 March 1934 El Centro, California) was an American racecar driver.  He was killed from injuries sustained in a dirt-car accident.  His Wife, Lil remarried twice more to two other NASCAR drivers; the first remarry also dying in a car accident while racing. Marshall "Little Sleepy" Glenn (April 22, 1908 – October 11, 1983) was a player and coach of American football and basketball and a physician.  He served as the head football coach at West Virginia University from 1937 to 1939, compiling a record of 14–12–3, and the school's head basketball coach from 1933 to 1938, tallying a mark of 61–46.  Glenn was born on April 22, 1908 in Elkins, West Virginia.  He died on October 11, 1983 at Washington Country Hospital in Hagerstown, Maryland from injuries sustained in a car accident on U.S. Route 340.  While attending West Virginia University he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon. In October 2015, 19-year-old Lucas Leonard from Chadwicks, New York, died from injuries sustained during an hours-long 'counseling' session at his church, the Word of Life Christian Church in New Hartford, Oneida County, New York.  Both he and his brother (who survived, albeit with severe injuries), were repeatedly beaten by parishioners during the session, and among those indicted in connection with the beating were Leonard's own parents and older sister. James Donald Anderson, Jr. (August 16, 1930 – November 20, 1976) was an American herpetologist with the American Museum of Natural History and professor of zoology at Rutgers University who did extensive fieldwork studying "Ambystoma" and other salamander species in Mexico.  He was born in Newark, New Jersey on August 16, 1930, and grew up in the nearby town of Belleville.  He attended the Rutgers University–Newark College of Arts and Sciences and earned a B.A. in zoology in 1954.  From 1954 to 1960 he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, working under Robert C. Stebbins.  Anderson returned to Rutgers University–Newark as a faculty member in 1960, and died from injuries sustained in a car accident on November 20, 1976.  The Anderson's salamander ("Ambystoma andersoni") is named after him. Nuages gris (] ; French, lit.  "Grey Clouds"), S.199 or Trübe Wolken, is a work for piano solo composed by Franz Liszt on August 24, 1881.  It is one of Liszt's most haunting and at the same time one of his most experimental works, representing, according to Allen Forte, "a high point in the experimental idiom with respect to expressive compositional procedure."'  If we must look for biographical parallels with the music, perhaps the bleakness of mood is connected with difficulties faced by Liszt at the time of composition, when he was suffering from dropsy, failing eyesight, and severe injuries sustained in a fall down the stairs of the Hofgärtnerei seven weeks earlier. Thomas William Bettis (March 17, 1933 – February 28, 2015) was an All-American football linebacker, NFL player, and NFL coach.  After starring at Purdue, Bettis was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 1955 NFL Draft.  He played nine seasons for the Packers, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the Chicago Bears.  After his playing career, Bettis went on to coach in the NFL for 30 years, including for the 1969–70 Super Bowl IV champions and the 1966–67 AFL champions, the Kansas City Chiefs.  Bettis served as interim coach of the Chiefs in 1977 after the firing of Paul Wiggin.  In seven games as head coach, Bettis compiled a 1–6 record, ending a 12-year stint as a coach of the Chiefs.  He returned in 1988 to be the defensive backs coach of the Chiefs.  He was inducted into both the Purdue University Athletic Hall of Fame and the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame. A scapular fracture is a fracture of the scapula, the shoulder blade.  The scapula is sturdy and located in a protected place, so it rarely breaks.  When it does, it is an indication that the individual was subjected to a considerable amount of force and that severe chest trauma may be present.  High-speed vehicle accidents are the most common cause.  This could be anywhere from a car accident, motorcycle crash, or high speed bicycle crash but falls and blows to the area can also be responsible for the injury.  Signs and symptoms are similar to those of other fractures: they include pain, tenderness, and reduced motion of the affected area although symptoms can take a couple of days to appear.  Imaging techniques such as X-ray are used to diagnose scapular fracture, but the injury may not be noticed in part because it is so frequently accompanied by other, severe injuries that demand attention.  The injuries that usually accompany scapular fracture generally have the greatest impact on the patient's outcome.  However, the injury can also occur by itself; when it does, it does not present a significant threat to life.  Treatment involves pain control and immobilizing the affected area, and, later, physical therapy. The 2009 Kansas City Chiefs season was the franchise's 50th season, and first with head coach Todd Haley at the helm.  It was also the first season with Scott Pioli as the team's general manager.  The Chiefs attempted to improve on their 2–14 record from 2008 with the third overall selection in the 2009 NFL Draft.  In 2009, the Chiefs also honored the induction of Derrick Thomas, the team's former linebacker from 1989 to 1999, into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  Thomas' jersey number 58 was officially retired by the franchise after having been unissued since Thomas' death in 2000. Derrick Vincent Thomas (January 1, 1967February 8, 2000), nicknamed D.T., was an American football linebacker and defensive end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL).  He played his entire 11-year career for the Chiefs after being drafted fourth overall in the 1989 NFL Draft.  Thomas, a member of the class of 2009 Pro Football Hall of Fame, was a premier football player throughout the 1990s and is considered one of the best pass rushers of all time.  In 1990 against the Seattle Seahawks, he set an NFL record with seven sacks in a single game.  On February 8, 2000, Thomas died from a massive blood clot that developed in his paralyzed legs and traveled to his lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism.  His paralysis was the result of severe injuries sustained in a car accident weeks earlier.  Thomas was inducted posthumously into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2014 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009 Jerrel Douglas Wilson (October 4, 1941 – April 9, 2005) was an American football a punter who spent 16 professional seasons, 15 of them with the Kansas City Chiefs, in the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL).  Wilson played in college at the University of Southern Mississippi.  Nicknamed Thunderfoot, he was selected to three AFL All-Star Teams and three AFC-NFC Pro Bowls. Wilson was elected to the Chiefs Hall of Fame in 1988.
Answer: Derrick Thomas