SYDNEY--ACT Brumbies Super 14 rugby forward Shawn Mackay has died in a Durban hospital from injuries he received after being hit by a vehicle, team officials said Monday.

Mackay, 26, died at about 0100 GMT, having suffered a cardiac arrest, a Brumbies spokesman said.

He had been in hospital, critically ill with multiple injuries, since March 29 when he was hit by an armed response car in a Durban street while on the Brumbies' tour of South Africa.

Team officials said Mackay had shown some positive signs after being brought out of a medically induced coma late last week and underwent surgery.

"After his surgery Shawn contracted an infection in his bloodstream," the Brumbies' chief executive Andrew Fagan said.

"He deteriorated rapidly and suffered a cardiac arrest from which he didn't recover."