John Elway
Driving Golf Cart Throughout Buddy’s Tragic Fall
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5:40 PM PT — We have now confirmed Elway was certainly behind the wheel of the golf cart.
NFL legend John Elway was proper in the course of the golf cart accident that left his longtime good friend on life help, and he might need been driving … TMZ Sports activities has discovered.
Regulation enforcement and different sources inform us Elway was on the golf cart Saturday night in La Quinta, California when Jeff Sperbeck — John’s enterprise accomplice and former agent — fell off the again of the shifting car, rolled and hit his head on asphalt … struggling a traumatic harm.
John, Jeff and their wives had been on the Stagecoach music competition earlier within the day in close by Indio, and had been leaving a post-party when the accident occurred.
We’re informed John is the one who made the decision to 911 instantly after the accident … and when paramedics arrived, Jeff was unconscious however nonetheless respiratory. The 61-year-old was transported to Desert Regional Medical Heart in Palm Springs.
Now, a number of sources inform us John was truly driving the golf cart, nonetheless, we’ve not been capable of affirm that with Elway. There isn’t any indication he did something mistaken.
Nobody else was injured within the accident — which occurred on the grounds of a non-public golf neighborhood — and we’re informed cops didn’t reply to the scene.
By all accounts, paramedics and hospital staffers did all the things they may to save lots of Jeff, however as TMZ Sports activities first reported … the prognosis isn’t good. We’re informed he has been on life help as medical doctors put together to reap his organs for donation.
John and Jeff remained shut associates after Elway’s retirement from the NFL, and went on to start out 7Cellars vineyard collectively in 2013.
