Posted on 05/23/2026 1:49:05 PM PDT by Mariner
Kyle Busch died of pneumonia leading to sepsis, according to a statement provided by the Busch family on Saturday morning.
"The medical evaluation provided to the Busch Family concluded that severe pneumonia progressed into sepsis, resulting in rapid and overwhelming associated complications,” the family said in a statement. "The Family asks for continued understanding and privacy during this difficult time."
Busch, 41, died on Thursday after a brief illness. On Wednesday, he began suffering a medical emergency at the General Motors Charlotte Technical Center in Concord, North Carolina. An unidentified male at the scene called 911, according to a recording obtained by TMZ, saying Busch was suffering “shortness of breath, very hot, thinks he’s going to pass out and is producing a little bit of blood — coughing up some blood.”
Busch was taken to a Charlotte hospital, per the Associated Press, and on Thursday morning his family and Richard Childress Racing announced he would miss this weekend’s Coca-Cola 600 because of an unspecified “severe illness.” At 5:40 p.m. ET on Thursday afternoon, NASCAR announced publicly that Busch had died, shocking the racing community.
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Apparently they couldn't stop it.
He had to know he was really sick.
Competitive drive probably did him no favors, hard to believe he didn’t know what he was dealing with, of course when sepsis takes over it’s a coin toss.
I put a $1,000 bucks or so into a tiny company stock (Cytosorbents Corp.) about 8 years back that has a blood filtration system that reduces inflammatory proteins. Sepsis is their end goal but money and Big Pharma to get it approved may never happen.
I’m sick of hearing about Kyle Bush. He was a jerk as a driver.
Most odd for a relative young man in good health. I suspect not diagnosed heart problems. I have such but diagnosed and treated.
Kudos to Yahoo Sports for a useful and informative headline.
It's the first headline in a long while that wasn't clickbait, such as:
"Kyle Busch's cause of death revealed, and you'll never guess what it was!", or
"Kyle Busch's causes of death revealed, and the third one will blow your mind!", or
"Kyle Busch's cause of death revealed, and it was just one weird trick!"
No worries on that score. You won't hear much more about him after another week or so. He's dead now, as you know.
Dead people don't drive like jerks. In fact, most don't drive at all.
And you are just a JERK
Coughing up blood is a sign that you just might not be long for this world.
Yes… When you’re a relatively young person, and you end up in an ambulance with pneumonia because it’s that serious, that is a life-threatening situation.
And I’m sure, him being a competitive person, didn’t want to give in and get medical assistance. I’m sure he thought he could just get over it and tough it out.
That is always something that a lot of people, especially competitive people who are tough in their field, are susceptible to.
I don’t know much about NASCAR racing, but I’ve heard of Kyle Bush and his reputation, so there is probably some ground for it being deserved.
And in every sport, there is always someone who gets a reputation that has truth behind it. And people really hate that athlete for it. When I was a young man (an adolescent, actually) there were players on teams that I despised.
As you grow up, you come to realize that yes there are Players that have bad and deserved reputations, but most of the time it is just because they put the fork in your team so you had to rail at them about something. You come to realize that most of the time, those were pretty good players who were just playing hard to win. They may have done bad things here and there, put it all in all, they weren’t the double tailed devils you painted them to be.
And then, at some point, if you’re lucky, you find out they’re actually pretty cool in the end.
I honestly haven’t watched enough NASCAR to know about Kyle Bush, whether he was one of those really bad players in a game who intentionally tried to hurt other people, but at this point, it’s a lost human life, and we all have our faults.
Just lost a friend....had other possibly surmountable health issues...but was coughing with difficulty for 2 weeks...his wife told him to get help from docs...he did not...same thing, pneumonia then sepsis. Lots of people try and “work” on through. Coughing up blood should be enough to get you a quick trip to the ER ASAP. Rolling the dice with ones health is unnecessary and doesn’t prove that one is smart, tough, or brave.
So thankful the first 10 responses are not about the vaccine anymore.
If sepsis is not caught early it’s very tough to overcome. Killed my brother who had been having issues for just a few days but he was not in good shape to start with.
A couple of years ago I went to the ER for afib, expected a quick cardioversion and I would be on my way. They must have heard something in my breathing as I didn’t really feel like I was having a hard time breathing. They did a chest X-ray and a bunch of blood tests. Didn’t know what was going on but they found I had pneumonia and blood work indicated sepsis. Was admitted to the hospital and it took nearly a week of antibiotics to get over it. If I had waited a day or two I would not be here now.
One of my best friends, who was a year younger than me, recently died of sepsis. Still a shock and I don’t think I will ever recover from it. My heart goes out to the Busch family.
What he said was true. Kyle was an ass. Especially if he knew he was sick and didn’t do anything about it and left his wife and kids behind because he wanted to keep racing. Yeah. Then he’d be a jerk.
Talk about an ass...
“Coughing up blood should be enough to get you a quick trip to the ER ASAP.”
I heard the 911 call yesterday. It seemed to me that coughing up blood was the prime reason for his friend making the call.
You probably missed my post yesterday.
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