Tiger Woods did not remember his car accident on February 23 and thought he was in the state of Florida when a deputy sheriff interviewed him at a hospital in Los Angeles after the accident.
These were some of the new details included in 22 pages of a traffic collision report and additional reports released Friday by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The report of the incident completed by MP Carlos Gonzalez concluded that Woods “was guilty of this collision because he drove at an unsafe speed for road conditions (inability to cope with a curve on the road)”
An analysis of the data from the black box recorder on the Genesis truck that Woods was driving that day concluded that he was moving in a straight line, no brakes were applied and no steering input was detected until he there was a slight directional movement at the end of the locking sequence.
“And [Woods] If he had applied the brakes to slow down or driven 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’s Department sergeant Michael Downing wrote in the report.
González wrote that when he found Woods inside his SUV overturned on the side of the road shortly after the accident, Woods was still in the driver’s seat with his seat belt fastened.
“[Woods] he was acting in a manner compatible with someone who suffered a concussion due to his involvement in a major traffic collision, “Gonzalez wrote.”[Woods] put the installed airbag back on the steering wheel. [Woods] he was unconscious during the collision and said he did not know how the collision occurred. “
The report said Woods was knocked unconscious, had lacerations to his lower jaw, bruises on his right and left ribs, a fractured tibia and right fibula and a possible injury to his right ankle.
González said in his report that Woods “had an open fracture in the middle axis of his right foot below the knee” and “reacted to pain when he was removed from the vehicle.”
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The authorities ruled out that it was under the influence of any substance.
Due to Woods’ injuries, González said he could not perform sobriety tests in the field and that he could not find alcohol, the smell of alcohol or prescription drugs in the truck. According to an additional report, there was an empty, unlabeled pill bottle in the front pocket of an SUV backpack.
The report said Woods had low blood pressure, which “was consistent with the shock of the collision and injuries [él] “A Los Angeles County Fire Department captain who treated Woods on the spot reported that he was ‘somewhat combative,’ which is consistent with the impact of his injuries. Woods was given morphine and Zofran in time. which was transported to the hospital by ambulance.
Deputy Kyle Sullivan interviewed Woods as a doctor at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, sewing the laceration from his chin. Sullivan wrote in his report that “Woods did not remember being involved in a traffic collision” and “believed he was currently in the state of Florida.”
Woods told Sullivan that he did not remember after finishing two long photo sessions the day before, and Woods said he did not drink alcohol or take prescription drugs the night before or that morning. .
Justin Smith, who investigated whether Woods was incapacitated while driving the truck, interviewed responding officers and other first responders who treated Woods on the spot. The captain of the Los Angeles County Fire Department noted that Woods’ students “were neither precise nor restricted, which would have indicated the narcotic analgesic influence.”
González told Smith that Woods’ answers to his questions “were not delayed, and his speech was not delayed.”
Smith obtained images of the parking and reception room at Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, where Woods lived. Smith noted that Woods “did not appear to have low dexterity and did not stagger or stagger.”
Based on his research, Smith concluded that “there was no reason to believe that [Woods] had operated a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs “.