The cause of Tiger Woods’ car accident that left the legendary golfer with serious leg injuries is apparently revealed by the Sheriff’s Department in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Authorities are expected to blame excessive speed as the reason Woods destroyed a 2021 Genesis SUV in February near Ranchos Palos Verdes, TMZ Sports reported. Sources told the gossip website that Woods had lost control of the vehicle and that authorities were speeding up the crash.
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According to TMZ Sports, the investigation determined that Woods “accelerated” at the time of the wreckage and that the SUV gained speed before crashing. It is apparently unclear whether Woods was unconscious before he lost control of the vehicle and whether he was a distracted driver.
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department said last week that the cause of the crash had been determined, but the details of the crash would not be disclosed due to Woods’ privacy concerns.
“A cause has been determined, the investigation has been completed,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva said last week.
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“We have reached out to Tiger Woods and his staff. There are some privacy issues regarding the disclosure of information about the investigation, so we are going to ask them if they waive the privacy and then we will be able to do the full information on all the information regarding the accident. ‘
Villanueva added that authorities had “all the contents of the black box” in the SUV, but could not disclose the details “without the consent of the people involved in the collision.”
Woods said he did not know how the accident happened, and that he did not drive anymore. When a witness approached the crash scene for the first time, Woods was unconscious, but a sheriff’s deputy said Woods was in a state of shock and could answer simple questions.
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Authorities said Woods was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol during the wreck. He sustained serious leg injuries during the crash and was taken back to his home in Florida last month.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.