Tiger Woods had no memory of his February 23 car accident and believed he was in the state of Florida when a sheriff’s deputy interviewed him at a hospital in the Los Angeles area after the crash.
Those were some of the new details included in 22 pages of a road accident report and additional reports released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Friday.
The incident report completed by Deputy Carlos Gonzalez concluded that Woods was “to blame in this collision because he was driving at an unsafe speed for road conditions (inability to make a turn in the roadway).”
An analysis of the data from the black box recorder in the Genesis SUV that Woods drove that day concluded that the SUV was driving in a straight line, no brakes were applied and no steering input was detected until a slight steering movement late in the day. the car occurred. recorded crash sequence.
“Had [Woods] braked to slow his speed or steered to correct the direction of travel, he would not have collided with the center median and the collision would not have occurred, ” LA Sheriff Director Michael Downing wrote in the report.
Gonzalez wrote that when he found Woods in his overturned SUV on the side of the road shortly after the accident, Woods was still in the driver’s seat with his seat belt on.
[Woods] acted in a manner consistent with someone who suffered shock from being involved in a major road accident, “Gonzalez wrote.”[Woods] the activated airbag was stuffed back into the steering wheel. [Woods] was knocked unconscious during the collision and said he did not know how the collision happened. “
According to the report, Woods had been knocked unconscious, had cuts to the front lower jaw, bruised right and left ribcages, fractured right shin and fibula, and a possible right ankle injury.
Gonzalez noted in his report that Woods “had an open fracture in the center of his right leg below the knee” and “responded to pain when he was moved out of the vehicle.”
Because of Woods’ injuries, Gonzalez said he was unable to perform sobriety tests and found no alcoholic beverages, alcoholic beverage odor, or prescription drugs in the SUV. According to an additional report, an empty pill bottle without a label was in the front pocket of a backpack in the SUV.
The report said Woods had low blood pressure, which was “consistent with shock from the collision and the injuries. [he] A Los Angeles County Fire Department captain who treated Woods on the scene said he was ‘somewhat belligerent’, which corresponded to the shock caused by his injuries. Woods was given morphine and Zofran while he was taken to the hospital by ambulance. transported.
Deputy Kyle Sullivan interviewed Woods while the tear in his chin was sutured by doctors at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. Sullivan wrote in his report that “Woods did not recall being involved in a traffic accident” and “thought he was currently in the state of Florida.”
Woods told Sullivan that he remembered nothing after shooting two long photo shoots the previous day, and Woods said he had not drunk alcohol or taken any prescription medication the night before or that morning.
Justin Smith, who investigated whether Woods was disabled while driving the SUV, interviewed officers and other first responders who treated Woods on the spot. The LA County Fire Department captain noted that Woods’ students were “inaccurate and unrestricted, which would have indicated a narcotic pain-relieving influence.”
Gonzalez told Smith that Woods’ answers to his questions “had not been delayed and that his speech was not unclear.”
Smith obtained camera footage from the valet parking and front desk at Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, where Woods was staying. Smith noted that Woods “did not appear to have bad dexterity and he did not stagger or stagger.”
Based on his research, Smith concluded that “there was no reason to believe [Woods] had driven a motor vehicle while affected by alcohol / drugs. “