Motocross racing legend Marty Smith and his wife, Nancy, are dead following a “freak” dune buggy accident, sources confirm.

The three-time AMA National Motocross champion was driving a dune buggy with three passengers through California’s Imperial Sand Dunes Monday when the off-road vehicle flipped and rolled down a hill, according to one of the passengers, Lee Ramage. Smith wasn’t wearing a harness and his wife, who was in the passenger seat, was wearing only a lap belt, Ramage says. The 63-year-old former champ was pronounced dead at the scene and his wife passed away after being transported to a local hospital, authorities say.

“It’s with the heaviest, grieving heart that I have to tell you Marty and Nancy Smith were killed yesterday in a rollover accident in his dune buggy at the Imperial Sand Dunes,” Rampage wrote on social media Tuesday. “My wife Tammi and I were in the buggy and were unhurt. Marty took his last breath while I was holding his head, keeping his airway clear.”

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/us/marty-smith-motocross-dead-trnd/index.html