News Flash! News Flash! News Flash!
News headlines late tonight is that golfer Tiger Woods has been taken to a hospital after being injured in a car wreck near his central Florida home early Friday, officials said.
The one-car accident occurred about 2:25 a.m. in Windermere, a suburb of Orlando, according to an incident report from the Florida Highway Patrol.
Woods, 33, had just pulled out of his driveway and begun to drive down the street when his Cadillac SUV struck a fire hydrant, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
The front of his vehicle then struck a tree. He has been transported to Health Central Hospital, the statement said.
The crash is under investigation and charges are pending, though it was not clear who could face charges. The accident did not appear to have been alcohol-related, the statement said.
Woods lives in Orange County with his wife, supermodel Elin Nordegren, and two children.
Woods has won 93 tournaments, 71 of those on the PGA Tour, including the 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2005 Masters Tournaments, 1999, 2000, 2006 and 2007 PGA Championships, 2000, 2002, and 2008 U.S. Open Championships, and 2000, 2005 and 2006 Open Championships, according to his official Web site.
Eishhhhhhhh, not good to hear… I hear he’s got some cuts in the face & some bruises but was already discharged from hospital.
Apparently the airbags in his vehicle did not deploy, due to the fact that he was still travelling slower than 53 km/h.
Probably the greatest sportman in the world. He’ll make any sacrifice within the rules to be the best. I really hope he gets better soon.
Have to say when the name Tiger Woods comes up on a rugby blog can’t help to think Ruan Pienaar and Earl Rose… Too bad both of them plays rugby like Tiger Drives down the driveway these days…
Sterkte Tiger,
Wonder wat soek hy so vroeg in die more in die strate.
Well Groot, good to hear he was still under 53 kays…seeing he was still in his driveway!!!
Funny story though, appears he hit a fire hydrant, injured his arm, because of the ‘groot skrik’ proceeded to hit a tree…ja, no alcohol involved, apparently!
No, no I will be surprised if he ever had more than one dop of champers after abig win but this all happened at 2am in the morning, he must have been very tired.
Car crash!!!??????
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Wat se sensasionele stront is die? Duidelik het ou Tiger so bietjie gevat en control verloor, maar not to worry, hy was in n moesa SUV.
Hyt maar net sy gat so bietjie los geskrik.
n Parow pyl ( zef bliksem van Parow wat opgesoepte Corsa ry ) sou gese het, Hou vas my dop en check die move!
Ag nee GBS!
Dis n sensasionele spul St@#$t die en jy weet dit. Moenie nou soos Voldy begin raak nie. P…LEAZE!
6 – đ ‘n Parow pyl!
7
maak die ding n goeie sepie, was hy oppad uit of in.
Uit kon die Percy Montgomery scenario dalk pas.
In , seker maar champs
#9
Mens is seker bietjie verveeld as jy nog jonk is en klaar so baie in die lewe bereik het.
Klink my hy was maar net oppad om n garage pie te gaan eet.
Florida – Amptenare het gesĂȘ Tiger Woods se vrou het sy motorvenster met ‘n gholfstok uitgeslaan om hom te probeer help na sy ongeluk.
Woods is uit die hospitaal ontslaan nadat hy in ân ongeluk buite sy huis in Florida beseer is, het amptenare gesĂȘ.
Die ongeluk het plaasgevind toe Woods uit sy motorhuis gery het.
Polisie in Florida het gesĂȘ Woods se motor het ân brandkraan getref en toe in ân boom vasgery.
Woods se beserings is aanvanklik as ernstig beskryf, maar sy woordvoerder, Glenn Greenspan het later gesĂȘ die gholfspeler is vir ligte beserings behandel en toe ontslaan.
Polisie het gesĂȘ geen drank was betrokke nie maar die ongeluk word ondersoek.
11
Wonder of hy sal like as dit sy vuurwarm putter was?
Sy vrou het hom seker raak gemoer met die gholfstok!
Die ou stampie wat hy sy kar gegee het, het niks skade aan hom gedoen. Die ruit wat gebreek het moes hom gesny het.
Ja nee, klink na n dronkspul vir my. đ
Hey, ek sal enigiets doen om julle dooie drolle te laat praat hier…. julle stadige klomp bliksems!
#14 Ja GBS. Ek verstaan.
Wat het van K9 plaasbrak geword? Hier is n paar regulars wat lanklaas gesig gewys het.
Well hope he is fine. Greatest golfer ever.
See our big golf tourney at Sun City starts next week. Always enjoy watching it.
Howzit Puma
Did you enjoy the cricket? It was great to see us perform so well.
Tiger Woods wife âsmashed car window with golf clubâ?
The world’s No. 1 golfer was treated and released from a hospital in good condition, his spokesman said.
The Florida Highway Patrol said Woodsâ vehicle hit a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbour’s yard after he pulled out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m. on Friday.
Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor told The Associated Press that officers found the 33-year-old PGA star lying in the street with his wife, Elin, hovering over him.
âShe was frantic, upset,â Saylor said in a briefing on Friday night. âIt was her husband laying on the ground.”
She told officers she was in the house when she heard the accident and âcame out and broke the back window with a golf club,â he said, adding that the front-door windows were not broken and that âthe door was probably locked.”
âShe supposedly got him out and laid him on the ground,” he said. âHe was in and out of consciousness when my guys got there.”
Saylor said Woods had lacerations to his upper and lower lips, and blood in his mouth; officers treated Woods for about 10 minutes until an ambulance arrived. Woods was conscious enough to speak, he said.
âHe was mumbling, but didn’t say anything coherent,” Saylor said.
The Florida Highway Patrol said alcohol was not involved, although the accident remains under investigation and charges could be filed.
Woods was alone in his 2009 Cadillac when he pulled out of his driveway from his mansion at Isleworth, a gated waterfront community just outside Orlando, the patrol said.
Woodsâ injuries were described as serious in the patrol’s report, though his spokesman, Glenn Greenspan, issued a statement that Woods was treated and released.
Left unanswered was where Woods was going at that hour.
Greenspan and agent Mark Steinberg said there would be no comment beyond the short statement of the accident posted on Woodsâ Web site.
Asked at an evening news conference if the couple could have been arguing, Saylor said he had no knowledge of that.
The couple, married five years, have two children. The accident came two days after the National Enquirer published a story alleging that Woods had been seeing a New York night club hostess, and that they recently were together in Melbourne, where Woods competed in the Australian Masters.
The woman, Rachel Uchitel, denied having an affair with Woods when contacted by the AP.
âI resent my reputation is getting completely blasted in the media,â she said during a telephone interview late on Friday. âEveryone is assuming I came out and said this. This is not a story I have anything to do with.”
Uchitel said she was in Melbourne two weeks ago with clients and never saw Woods the entire time she was there.
A representative of the National Enquirer declined comment.
Patrol spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Montes said the accident was being investigated as a âtraffic crash.”
âWe don’t believe it is a domestic issue,â she said.
Woods, coming off a two-week trip to China and Australia earlier this month, is host of the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, California, which starts on Thursday.
He is scheduled to have his press conference Tuesday afternoon at Sherwood Country Club. Steinberg said he did not know if Woods planned to play next week.
The Florida Highway Patrol said tapes of the 911 call won’t be released until they can be reviewed, probably on Monday at the earliest.
The accident report was not released until nearly 12 hours after Woods was injured. Montes said the accident did not meet the criteria of a serious crash, and the FHP only put out a press release because of inquiries from local media.
Montes said the patrol reports injuries as serious if they require more than minor medical attention. Air bags in the SUV did not deploy.
Two troopers tried to talk to Woods on Friday evening, but his wife said he was sleeping and they agreed to come back on Saturday, Montes said.
She said charges could be filed if there was a clear traffic violation, although troopers still do not know what caused Woodsâ SUV to hit the hydrant and the tree.
Damage to the front of Woodsâ SUV was described as âmediumâ by Saylor. âNot real extensive, but not real light,â he said.
Woods rarely faces such private scrutiny, even as perhaps the most famous active athlete in the world.
He usually makes news only because of what he can do with a golf club. Few other athletes have managed to keep their private lives so guarded, or have a circle of friends so airtight when it comes to life off the course.
His wife was awarded a $183,250 settlement and an apology from an Irish magazine that published a fake nude photo of her, and Woods received a $1.6 million settlement in a lawsuit against the builder of his yacht â named Privacy â for using his name and photos of the boat as promotional material.
Woods is approaching $100 million in career earnings on the PGA Tour, and Forbes magazine reported that combined with endorsements, appearance fees and golf course design, he has become the first athlete to top $1 billion.
Woodsâ $2.4 million home is part of an exclusive subdivision near Orlando, a community set on an Arnold Palmer-designed golf course and a chain of small lakes.
The neighborhood, which is fortified with high brick walls and has its own security force, is home to CEOs and other sports stars such as the NBA’s Shaquille O’Neal.
Woods has won 82 times around the world and 14 majors, becoming the first player of black heritage to win a major at the 1997 Masters when he was 21.
He attended the Stanford-Cal football game last Saturday, where he tossed the coin at the start of the game and was inducted into Stanford’s sports Hall of Fame at halftime.
He won six times this year after missing eight months recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee.
Even though he failed to win a major, Woods said he considered this a successful year because he did not know how his knee would respond.
Users Online
Total 141 users including 0 member, 141 guests, 0 bot online
Most users ever online were 3735, on 31 August 2022 @ 6:23 pm
No Counter as from 31 October 2009: 41,456,668 Page Impressions
_