John Elway
On Golf Cart Throughout Pal’s Tragic Fall …
Probably Behind the Wheel
Revealed
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 realized.
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 associate and former agent — fell off the again of the transferring 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 have been leaving a post-party when the accident occurred.
We’re instructed 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 Middle in Palm Springs.
Now, a number of sources inform us John was truly driving the golf cart, nonetheless, we’ve not been in a position to affirm that with Elway. There is no indication he did something improper.
Nobody else was injured within the accident — which occurred on the grounds of a personal golf group — and we’re instructed 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 instructed he has been on life help as medical doctors put together to reap his organs for donation.
John and Jeff remained shut mates after Elway’s retirement from the NFL, and went on to begin 7Cellars vineyard collectively in 2013.