Coroner Reveals Jeff Sperbeck, John Elway's Former Agent, Cause Of Death Following Golf Cart Crash

Jeff Sperbeck, nan longtime agent, business partner and friend of John Elway, died aft he was progressive successful a superior clang involving a play cart. Sperbeck was 62.

Elway, a erstwhile Denver Broncos quarterback, was reportedly driving nan motorized conveyance astatine nan clip of nan 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 nan crippled against nan Los Angeles Chargers astatine SoFi Stadium. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA Today Sports)

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

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

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

Last week, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco made it clear that investigators had recovered "nothing" to propose that criminal activity had taken spot during nan incident. "This appears to beryllium a horrific accident," Bianco told nan Post, noting that "a couple" of nan group progressive successful nan incident "happen to beryllium very high-profile celebrities," Bianco told the Denver Post.

"And that makes this much of an rumor than it astir apt should be," Bianco said astatine nan time, noting that his section had received a "massive media inquiry" aft nan news broke. "We’re doing everything we tin to make judge that this is what it appears to be, and conscionable an accident," he added.

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

Elway released a statement connected April 30 saying he was near "heartbroken."

"I americium perfectly devastated and heartbroken by nan passing of my adjacent friend, business partner and supplier Jeff Sperbeck," Elway said successful a statement, via ESPN. "There are nary words to genuinely definitive nan profound sadness I consciousness pinch nan abrupt nonaccomplishment of personification who has meant truthful overmuch to me. "

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

Fox News' Scott Thompson contributed to this report.

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