Tiger Woods did not remember anything about his car wreck on Feb. 23 and believed he was in the state of Florida when a sheriff’s deputy questioned him after an interview at a Los Angeles hospital.
It was one of the new details included on 22 pages of a traffic collision report and supplementary reports, released Friday by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The incident report, completed by Deputy Carlos Gonzalez, concluded that Woods was “guilty of this collision because he was driving at an unsafe speed due to road conditions (inability to negotiate a curve in the road).”
An analysis of the data from the black box pickup in the Genesis SUV that Woods was driving that day concluded that the SUV was driving in a straight line, no brakes were applied and no steering input was observed. to a slight steering motion late in the recorded crash sequence.
“Has [Woods] had he applied brakes to slow down or to correct the direction of travel, he would not have collided with the middle media and the collision would not have taken place, “said center Michael Downing, the LA sheriff. district, written in the report.
Gonzalez writes that when he found Woods inside his inverted SUV on the side of the road shortly after the accident, Woods was still sitting on the driver’s seat with his seat belt.
“[Woods] acted in a manner similar to someone who suffered from shock because he was involved in a major traffic collision, “Gonzalez wrote.[Woods] was stuffing the deployed airbag back into the steering wheel. [Woods] struck unconscious during the collision and said he did not know how the collision took place. ‘
According to the report, Woods was beaten unconscious, tear wounds to the lower jaw, right and left ribs bruised, right leg and fibula broken and possible injury to the right ankle.
Gonzalez noted in his report that Woods “had an open midsection of his right leg below the knee” and “reacted to pain when he was moved out of the vehicle.”
Because of Woods’ injuries, Gonzalez said he could not perform sobriety tests, and found no alcoholic beverage, odor of alcoholic beverages or prescription drugs in the SUV. There was an empty pill bottle without labels in the front pocket of a backpack in the SUV, according to a supplementary report.
The report said Woods had low blood pressure, which was “consistent with shock due to the collision and the injuries. [he] sustained. ” A Los Angeles firefighter who treated Woods at the scene said he was ‘somewhat combative’, consistent with the shock caused by his injuries. Woods was given morphine and Zofran while being transported to the hospital by ambulance.
Deputy Kyle Sullivan interviewed Woods while doctors at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California, stabbed the tear in his chin. Sullivan wrote in his report that “Woods could not remember being involved in a traffic collision” and “thought he was currently in the state of Florida.”
Woods told Sullivan he did not remember anything after completing two long photo sessions the previous day, and Woods said he had not drunk alcohol or taken medication the night before or the morning before.
Justin Smith, who investigated whether Woods was harmed while driving the SUV, conducted interrogations with officers responding to the scene. The captain of the LA county fire department noted that Woods’ students were “not fixed and not restricted, which would be an indication of narcotic analgesic influence.”
Gonzalez told Smith that Woods’ answers to his questions “were not delayed and that his speech was not clear.”
Smith obtained camera footage from the maid and receptionist at Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, where Woods was staying. Smith noted that Woods “apparently does not have poor agility and that he does not stagger or rock.”
Based on his investigation, Smith concluded that ‘there was no reason to believe [Woods] drove a motor vehicle while being harmed by alcohol / drugs. ‘