Tiger was unconscious after crash, court hears

TIGER WOODS was found unconscious at the wheel following his horrific car crash in Los Angeles, fresh court evidence has revealed.

Police officers had only previously disclosed that Woods was able to speak and answer questions when they reached his mangled SUV.

However, in presenting legal documents, the Los Angeles Police Department revealed that a man who lived nearby and heard the crash was actually the first on the scene.

The man told officers that Woods did not respond to his questions. By the time the police arrived, Woods (above) had regained consciousness although he did not know how the collision occurred nor that he had been driving.

The information was released in an affidavit requesting – successfully – that a search warrant be approved for the SUV’s data recorder, or black box. The police are refusing to say at this stage what was discovered on the black box, but much of the speculation seems to suggest Woods might have been asleep at the wheel when the crash happened.

Woods had been on his way to complete a two-day corporate event following the Genesis Invitational at Riviera.

On the first day, eyewitnesses report he looked exhausted. Sources have told Sportsmail that he was struggling with his back to such an extent that he had to lean on his manager Mark Steinberg to climb a flight of stairs.

The 45-year-old is still in hospital in Los Angeles in the first stages of his recovery from injuries to his right leg.

Meanwhile, Rory McIlroy and a host of other golfers from this side of the Atlantic were well placed at the halfway stage of the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando.

Scotland’s Martin Laird was one shot behind halfway leader, Corey Conners of Canada, with McIlroy and Norwegian Viktor Hovland two back.