Sheriff Villanueva said at a news conference last week that the cause of the crash had been determined, but citing California privacy laws, said it could not be released without Woods’s consent. Woods was driving a 2021 Genesis GV80 S.U.V., which was provided to him during the tournament he is known for always driving himself in a courtesy car at tournaments. Genesis Motor is a luxury vehicle division of Hyundai. Woods, who lives in Florida, was in Southern California to host the Genesis Invitational at the Riviera Country Club in the Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles the weekend before the crash. Investigators did not obtain or test Woods’s blood.
Woods told law enforcement investigators that he had not been drinking and had not taken any prescription pills. offenders, and pleaded guilty to reckless driving.Ĭaptain Powers said there was no odor of alcohol, open containers or any narcotics in the vehicle or on Woods after the February crash. He eventually entered a diversion program for first-time D.U.I. Woods blamed the incident on the interaction of several prescription medicines, including Vicodin, and did not have any alcohol in his system. Woods was also arrested in 2017 in Florida, after police found him asleep in his car on the side of a road at 3 a.m. Woods and Elin Nordegren eventually divorced.
He lost numerous sponsors and stepped away from golf for months. There were numerous reports of Woods’s infidelities and an apology in which he admitted cheating on his wife. He was knocked unconscious and was taken to a hospital in an ambulance, where he was treated for minor facial injuries.īut the incident is remembered mostly for what happened next and the fallout for his career. into a fire hydrant outside his Florida home in the middle of the night. Doctors not involved in Woods’s care have predicted an extremely difficult recovery from his injuries.įebruary’s crash is not the first time Woods’s life, and career, has been derailed by a car crash. 23 and taken to the hospital, where he underwent several surgeries on his right leg. Woods had to be extracted from his S.U.V. He said that Woods did not receive any special treatment, and nobody would be cited for speeding in a solo vehicle collision without any witnesses. Woods was not cited, Villanueva said, because under California law that typically requires either an independent witness or a law enforcement officer to witness the excessive speed. Woods has no recollection of the collision, and there were no witnesses to the crash. Powers said he believed that Woods inadvertently hit the accelerator while trying to brake. The data showed that Woods had hit the accelerator throughout the crash, and that the pressure applied to the pedal was 99 percent.
The captain of the Lomita Sheriff’s Station, James Powers, said that data was obtained from the vehicle’s event data recorder, known colloquially as the black box. And that is not preferential treatment that would occur in any collision of this type based on these circumstances. I know there’s a lot of experts who claim they’re drug recognition - and people said, “Oh, they should have drawn blood or done this or done that.” And without the signs of impairment, we don’t get to the point where we can actually author a search warrant and develop the probable cause to get that, and execute that search warrant.
There were no citations issued, and there were no signs of impairment. And the final estimated speed when the vehicles struck the tree was 75 miles per hour. Estimated speeds at the first area of impact were 84 to 87 miles per hour. The primary causal factor for this traffic collision was driving at a speed unsafe for the road conditions and the inability to negotiate the curve of the roadway. zone when he crashed his sport-utility vehicle in February and that there were no signs of impairment. Transcript Tiger Woods Crash Was Caused by Speeding, Sheriff Says The Los Angeles County Sheriff said on Wednesday that Tiger Woods was driving at about 85 m.p.h.