Nicky Hayden Cause Of Death: Former MotoGP Champion Dies After Bicycle Crash In Italy

Nicky Hayden, the 2006 MotoGP champion, died Monday five days after a bicycle crash in Italy. He was 35.

Maurizio Bufalini Hospital in Cesena, Italy, where Hayden was hospitalized said the professional race had cerebral damage and several traumatic injuries.

“The medical team has verified the death of the patient Nicholas Patrick Hayden, who has been undergoing care since last Wednesday, May 17 in the intensive care unit of the Bufalini Hospital in Cesena following a very serious polytrauma, which occurred the same day,” the hospital said in a statement.