Tiger thought he was in florida after crash
Tiger Woods didn’t remember anything about his car crash Feb. 23 and thought he was in Florida when a sheriff’s deputy interviewed him at a Los Angeles-area hospital after the wreck.
Those were among the new details included in 22 pages of a traffic-collision report and supplemental reports released Friday by the Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department.
The incident report, which was completed by Deputy Carlos Gonzalez, concluded Woods ‘‘was at fault in this collision for driving at an unsafe speed for road conditions (inability to negotiate a curve in the roadway).’’
An analysis of the data from the black-box recorder in the SUV that Woods was driving that day concluded the SUV was traveling in a straight line, no brakes were applied and there was no steering input detected until some slight movement late in the recorded crash sequence.
Gonzalez wrote that when he found Woods inside his overturned SUV on the side of the road after the accident, Woods was still in the driver’s seat with his seat belt on.
‘‘[Woods] was acting in a manner consistent with someone suffering from shock due to having been involved in a major traffic collision,’’ Gonzalez wrote. ‘‘[Woods] was stuffing the deployed airbag back into the steering wheel. [Woods] was knocked unconscious during the collision and said he did not know how the collision occurred.’’
The report said Woods had lacerations to his lower front jaw, bruised right and left rib cages, a fractured right tibia and fibula and a possible injury to his right ankle.
Because of Woods’ injuries, Gonzalez said he was unable to perform sobriety tests but found no alcoholic beverages, odor of alcoholic beverages or prescription medications in the SUV. There was an empty pill bottle with no labeling found in the front pocket of a backpack in the SUV, a supplemental report said.
The report said Woods had low blood pressure, which ‘‘was consistent with shock as a result of the collision and the injuries [he] sustained.’’ A Los Angeles County Fire Department captain who treated Woods at the scene reported he was ‘‘somewhat combative,’’ which was consistent with shock caused by his injuries. He was given morphine and Zofran while being transported to the hospital via ambulance.
Deputy Kyle Sullivan interviewed Woods at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. Sullivan wrote in his report that ‘‘Woods did not remember being involved in a traffic collision’’ and ‘‘thought he was currently in the state of Florida.’’
Justin Smith, who investigated whether Woods was impaired while driving, interviewed responding officers and other first responders who treated Woods at the scene. The L.A. County Fire Department captain observed Woods’ pupils were ‘‘not pinpoint and not restricted, which would have been indicative of narcotic analgesic influence.’’
Gonzalez told Smith that Woods’ answers to his questions ‘‘were not delayed and his speech was not slurred.’’