Tiger Woods told police after the accident that they no longer drove

Woods was driving in Rancho Palos Verdes, near Los Angeles, on Feb. 23 shortly after 7 a.m. PT when his Genesis SUV hit a “Welcome to Rolling Hills Estates” sign, crossed a hub divider and crossed more than 150 feet across the shoulder of the road traveled. by shrubbery and uprooted tree before coming to a halt on the driver’s side, according to the affidavit.

Woods sustained injuries and cuts to his face and multiple fractures and compound fractures to his right leg, the statement said.

According to the documents obtained by CNN, Woods regained consciousness before the deputy deputy staff arrived at the scene of the accident. As he sat in the driver’s seat of the vehicle with blood on his face and chin, Woods told deputies he could no longer think of driving or the collision.

“The deputies asked him how the collision took place. Driver said he did not know and did not even remember that he was driving,” the statement read. “The driver was treated in hospital for his injuries and was again asked there how the collision occurred. He repeated that he did not know and did not remember that he was driving.”

A witness also approached the vehicle after hearing the crash and noticed Woods was “unconscious and unresponsive to his questions,” Deputy Johann Schloegl, the traffic officer investigating the crash, wrote in the statement.

There is no evidence that Woods was affected by drugs or alcohol, according to initial response interviews that cited the statement.

The SUV was provided to Woods by the sponsor of the golf tournament he hosted this past weekend. The sheriff’s office in LA County said in a statement to CNN earlier this week that he had executed a warrant for the black box in the courtesy vehicle.

The data stored in the box, along with a number of data recording modules in the vehicle, can provide information on the use of brakes and the accelerator by the driver, as well as other factors that are the cause of the accident, the affidavit said. .

In an interview with USA Today, Schloegl said on Tuesday that the warrant was only the necessary investigation and he did not consider the investigation a criminal investigation.

“If someone is involved in a traffic collision, we have to reconstruct the traffic collision, if there is reckless driving, if someone was on their cell phone or something like that,” Schloegl told the network. “We determine if there was a crime. If there was no crime, we close the case, and it was a regular traffic collision.”

Authorities said earlier that they believed the incident was ‘merely an accident’, but that they would have to pull the black box recorder out of the vehicle to determine it.

CNN’s Alexandra Meeks, Sarah Moon and Christina Maxouris contributed to this report.

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