Coroner reveals Jeff Sperbeck, John Elway's former agent, cause of death following golf cart crash

Jeff Sperbeck, the longtime agent, concern spouse and person of John Elway, died aft helium was progressive successful a superior clang involving a play cart. Sperbeck was 62.

Elway, a erstwhile Denver Broncos quarterback, was reportedly driving the motorized conveyance astatine the clip of the deadly accident.

The Riverside County (California) coroner confirmed that Sperbeck died connected April 30 astatine Desert Regional Medical Center successful Palm Springs, California. The wounded had occurred 4 days earlier successful adjacent La Quinta.

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Jan. 2, 2022; Inglewood, California: Then-Denver Broncos president of shot operations John Elway looks connected earlier the crippled against the Los Angeles Chargers astatine SoFi Stadium. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA Today Sports)

On Friday, the coroner's bureau ruled Sperbeck's decease accidental and said helium had died arsenic a effect of blunt caput trauma. "The origin of decease is ‘blunt caput trauma,’ and the mode of decease is ‘accident,’" the coroner's bureau said successful the connection obtained by the Denver Post.

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The connection added that the wounded occurred erstwhile the "passenger fell from" the play cart.

Jan. 2, 2022; Inglewood, California: Then-Denver Broncos president of shot operations John Elway looks connected earlier the crippled against the Los Angeles Chargers astatine SoFi Stadium. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA Today Sports)

Last week, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco made it wide that investigators had recovered "nothing" to suggest that transgression enactment had taken spot during the incident. "This appears to beryllium a horrific accident," Bianco told the Post, noting that "a couple" of the radical progressive successful the incidental "happen to beryllium precise high-profile celebrities," Bianco told the Denver Post.

"And that makes this much of an contented than it astir apt should be," Bianco said astatine the time, noting that his section had received a "massive media inquiry" aft the quality broke. "We’re doing everything we tin to marque definite that this is what it appears to be, and conscionable an accident," helium added.

Dec 26, 2021; Paradise, Nevada, USA; Denver Broncos president of shot operations John Elway watches from the sidelines during the crippled against the Las Vegas Raiders astatine Allegiant Stadium. (Kirby Lee-USA Today Sports)

Elway released a connection connected April 30 saying helium was near "heartbroken."

"I americium perfectly devastated and heartbroken by the passing of my adjacent friend, concern spouse and cause Jeff Sperbeck," Elway said successful a statement, via ESPN. "There are nary words to genuinely explicit the profound sadness I consciousness with the abrupt nonaccomplishment of idiosyncratic who has meant truthful overmuch to me. "

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Elway won 2 Super Bowls with the Broncos and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame successful 2004. 

Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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