Kyle Busch was found on the bathroom floor of a North Carolina racing facility on Wednesday, 20 May, coughing up blood and struggling to breathe, before the NASCAR star was rushed to the hospital and died the next day at the age of 41, according to newly released 911 audio.
For context, the fresh details emerge days after Kyle Busch's family confirmed he had died on Thursday, 21 May, from complications of severe pneumonia that had rapidly progressed into sepsis. In a statement, they said the illness had led to 'rapid and overwhelming associated complications' and asked for privacy as they tried to absorb the loss of a two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, a husband and a father of two. Nothing in the emerging accounts contradicts that official cause of death, but the new recordings starkly lay out the crisis unfolding in his final hours.
