Tiger Woods did not remember anything about his car accident on Feb. 23 and believed he was in the state of Florida when a bailiff’s assistant interviewed him at a hospital in the Los Angeles area after the crash.
These were some of the new details included in 22 pages of a traffic collision report and supplementary reports released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Friday.
The incident report completed by Assistant Carlos González concluded that Woods “was to blame in this collision for driving at an unsafe speed for road conditions (inability to face a curve on the road ) “.
An analysis of the data from the black box recorder in the Genesis van that Woods was driving that day concluded that he was traveling in a straight line, no brakes were applied and no steering input was detected until there was a slight movement of direction at the end of the shock sequence.
“I [Woods] would have applied the brakes to reduce his speed or would have driven to correct the direction of travel, there would have been no collision with the central average and the collision would not have happened, ”the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department sergeant wrote. Angeles, Michael Downing, in the report.
Gonzalez wrote that when he found Woods inside his SUV overturned on the side of the road shortly after the crash, Woods was still in the driver’s seat with his seat belt fastened.
“[Woods] he was acting consistently with someone who suffered a concussion due to being involved in a major traffic collision, “Gonzalez wrote.”[Woods] he was placing the unfolded airbag back at the wheel. [Woods] became unconscious during the collision and said he did not know how the collision occurred. “
The report said Woods had become unconscious, had lacerations to his lower front jaw, bruises on his right and left ribs, fracture of his right tibia and fibula and a possible injury to his right ankle.
Gonzalez noted in his report that Woods “had an open fracture in the middle axis of his right leg below the knee” and “reacted to the pain when he was moved from the vehicle.”
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Authorities ruled out that he was under the effects of any substance.
Due to Woods’ injuries, Gonzalez said he was unable to perform sobriety tests and found no alcoholic beverages, the smell of alcoholic beverages or prescription drugs in the van. There was an empty unlabeled pill jar in the front pocket of a backpack at the SUV, according to a supplementary report.
The report said Woods had low blood pressure, which “was consistent with the shock as a result of the collision and injuries that [él] suffered. “A Los Angeles County Fire Department captain who treated Woods at the scene reported that he was” a little combative, “which was consistent with the impact caused by his injuries. In Woods he was given morphine and Zofran while being transported to the hospital by ambulance.
Assistant Kyle Sullivan interviewed Woods while doctors at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, were sewing lacerations to his chin. Sullivan wrote in his report that “Woods did not remember being involved in a traffic collision” and “thought he was currently in the state of Florida.”
Woods told Sullivan he didn’t remember anything after completing two long photo shoots the day before, and Woods said he hadn’t consumed alcohol or taken prescription drugs the night before or that morning.
Justin Smith, who investigated whether Woods was disabled while driving the van, interviewed responding officers and other lifeguards who treated Woods at the scene. The captain of the Los Angeles County Fire Department noted that Woods’ pupils “were not precise or restricted, which would have been indicative of the narcotic analgesic influence.”
Gonzalez told Smith that Woods’ answers to his questions “were not delayed and his speech was not dragged.”
Smith obtained footage from the camera in the parking and reception area at Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, where Woods had been staying. Smith noted that Woods “did not appear to have little dexterity and did not stagger or sway.”
Based on his research, Smith concluded that “there was no reason to believe that [Woods] had been operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs “.