Tiger Woods couldn’t remember his car accident on February 23 and believed he was in the state of Florida when a deputy sheriff interviewed him at a hospital in the Los Angeles area after the accident.
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 handle a curve in the road).”
An analysis of the data from the black box recorder on the Genesis truck that Woods drove that day concluded that he was driving in a straight line, no brakes were applied, and no steering input was detected until a slight steering movement occurred. of the crash sequence.
“And [Woods] Had he been braking to slow down or driving to correct the direction of travel, he would not have hit the center median and the collision would not have occurred, ” Los Angeles County Sheriff Sergeant Michael Downing wrote in the report.
González wrote that when he found Woods in his SUV overturned to the side of the road shortly after the accident, Woods was still in the driver’s seat with his seat belt on.
[Woods] he acted in a manner consistent with someone who had suffered a concussion from being involved in a major road accident, “Gonzalez wrote.”[Woods] he put the activated airbag back on the steering wheel. [Woods] he was unconscious during the collision and said he did not know how the collision took place. “
According to the report, Woods had passed out, had cuts to his lower jaw, bruises to his right and left ribs, a fractured right shin and fibula, and possibly a right ankle injury.
González noted in his report that Woods “had an open fracture in the center axis of his right leg below the knee” and “responded to pain when he was moved out of the vehicle.”
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The authorities ruled out that he was under the influence of any substance.
Because of Woods’ injuries, González said he was unable to perform sobriety tests and found no alcoholic beverages, the smell of alcoholic beverages, or prescription drugs in the truck. According to an additional report, an empty pill bottle without labels was in the front pocket of a backpack in the SUV.
The report said Woods had low blood pressure, which was “ consistent with shocks from the collision and the injuries that [él] sorrow. A Los Angeles County Fire Department captain who treated Woods on the scene reported that he was “ somewhat combative, ” which was consistent with the impact caused by his injuries. Woods was given morphine and Zofran while being transported to hospital by ambulance. .
Deputy Kyle Sullivan interviewed Woods while doctors at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, sewed up the tear on his chin. 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 couldn’t remember anything after completing two long photo shoots the day before, and Woods said he had not drunk alcohol or taken any prescription medications the night before or that morning.
Justin Smith, who investigated whether Woods was incapacitated while driving the truck, interviewed officers and other first responders who treated Woods on the spot. The Los Angeles County Fire Department captain noted that Woods’ students were “neither accurate nor limited, which would have indicated a narcotic analgesic influence.”
González told Smith that Woods’ answers to his questions “had not been delayed and that his speech was not unclear.”
Smith received CCTV footage of the parking lot and reception area of Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, where Woods was staying. Smith noted that Woods “appeared to have no slight dexterity and did not wobble or swing.”
Based on his research, Smith concluded that “there was no reason to believe that [Woods] he had driven a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. ‘