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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said it appears “nothing nefarious” happened during the golf cart incident that led to the death of John Elway’s close friend and business partner Jeff Sperbeck last weekend.

“We have not learned anything that would indicate that this is anything other than a tragic accident,” Bianco said in a phone interview Friday night.

Sperbeck was standing in the back portion of the cart when he fell off, Bianco said.

The cart was designed for either two or four people, according to the sheriff, but there were five people—Sperbeck, Elway, their wives and a person whose identity Bianco didn’t know—riding on it at the time of the incident.

“There doesn’t appear to be any cause other than, for whatever reason, he fell off,” Bianco said.