John Elway
Driving Golf Cart Throughout Pal’s Tragic Fall
Printed April 29, 2025 3:49 PM PDT
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Up to date April 29, 2025 6:17 PM PDT
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 assist, and he may need been driving … TMZ Sports activities has realized.
Legislation 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 transferring automobile, rolled and hit his head on asphalt … struggling a traumatic harm.
John, Jeff and their wives had been on the Stagecoach music pageant earlier within the day in close by Indio, and had been leaving a post-party when the accident occurred.
We’re advised 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 really driving the golf cart, nonetheless, we’ve not been in a position to affirm that with Elway. There isn’t any indication he did something fallacious.
Nobody else was injured within the accident — which occurred on the grounds of a personal golf group — and we’re advised cops didn’t reply to the scene.
By all accounts, paramedics and hospital staffers did the whole lot they may to avoid wasting Jeff, however as TMZ Sports first reported … the prognosis is just not good. We’re advised he has been on life assist as docs 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 begin 7Cellars vineyard collectively in 2013.
