{"id":692917,"date":"2026-05-25T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692917\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:13:09","slug":"nascar-driver-kyle-buschs-cause-of-death-has-been-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692917\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Driver Kyle Busch\u2019s Cause of Death Has Been Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The family of NASCAR driver Kyle Busch said he died of severe pneumonia that progressed to sepsis, confirmed to The Associated Press on May 23. The report outlines Kyle Busch cause of death and related medical details, noting severe pneumonia and sepsis. It references NASCAR driver Kyle Busch and AP confirmation.Busch had raced while ill at Watkins Glen on May 10 and radioed for a \u201cshot,\u201d saying elevation changes worsened a sinus cold. On May 20, he became unresponsive while testing a Chevrolet simulator in Concord, North Carolina; a 911 caller cited shortness of breath and coughing blood. He died the next day in a Charlotte-area hospital. He will be honored at Sunday\u2019s Coca-Cola 600 with a black No. 8 decal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of NASCAR driver Kyle Busch said he died of severe pneumonia that progressed to sepsis, confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,54258,8661,634,22865,82],"class_list":["post-692917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-concord","tag-kyle-busch","tag-nascar","tag-north-carolina","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}