The onetime promising Yankees prospect who died Sunday after an Oct. 4 motorcycle accident in his native Venezuela had been lingering in a coma before his death, officials revealed.

Jesús Montero, 35, was riding the motorcycle when he collided with a pickup truck in Valencia about 93 miles west of Caracas, officials said.

The brutal crash left the former Yankee with a punctured lung, six broken ribs and multiple fractures to his femur, tibia, and fibula, as well as hip and knee injuries, local outlet El Nacional reported . 3

Montero was rushed to the Dr. Enrique Tejera Hospital, where he suffered cardiac arrest and needed to be resuscitated, the outlet said.

The former major leaguer was induced into a coma and also put on dialysis because of the extent of the damage to his ren

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