Tiger Woods Is Hurt in Car Crash in Los Angeles Area
Source: New York Times
Tiger Woods was injured in a serious car crash, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Tuesday, adding in a statement that paramedics pulled him from the wreckage with the rescue tool called the “jaws of life.” Mark Steinberg, Mr. Woods’s longtime agent, told Golf Digest in a statement that Woods had suffered “multiple leg injuries” and is “currently in surgery.” Steinberg added: “We thank you for your privacy and support.”
The incident happened about 7:12 a.m. local time on Tuesday near the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes, a coastal city of about 42,000 people in Los Angeles County. Mr. Woods’s vehicle was traveling north on Hawthorne Boulevard at Blackhorse Road when it crashed, the Sheriff’s Department said. “The vehicle sustained major damage,” the department said.
Pictures of crash scene broadcast on local television Tuesday afternoon showed a black SUV turned on its side in an open, grassy area with extensive damage to the front of the vehicle. Mr. Woods was removed from the vehicle with a hydraulic spreader tool, often called the “jaws of life,” by Los Angeles County firefighters and paramedics, and he was then taken to a hospital. His condition and the extent of his injuries were not immediately clear. The incident is being investigated by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Lomita station.
Mr. Woods, 45, has not played competitively since December and had his fifth back surgery in January, a procedure called a microdiscectomy, to remove a pressurized disc fragment that was pinching a nerve. Last weekend, he hosted a PGA Tour event in Southern California, the Genesis Invitational. Interviewed on the broadcast of that tournament, Woods said he had begun practicing and appeared at ease, smiling and joking with CBS announcers about his progress from the surgery. But he offered no timetable for his return to competitive golf. He only said he had hoped to resume playing by the Masters Tournament, which is held in the first full week of April.
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Original article and headline -
Tiger Woods was injured in a serious car crash, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday, adding in a statement that paramedics pulled him from the wreckage with the rescue tool called the "jaws of life."
The incident happened about 7:12 a.m. local time on Tuesday near the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verde, a coastal city of about 42,000 people in Los Angeles County.
Mr. Woods's vehicle was traveling north on Hawthorne Boulevard at Blackhorse Road when it crashed, the Sheriff's Department said. "The vehicle sustained major damage," the department said.
Mr. Woods was removed from the vehicle with a hydraulic spreader tool, often called the "jaws of life," by Los Angeles County firefighters and paramedics, and he was then taken to a hospital. His condition and the extent of his injuries were not immediately clear. The incident is being investigated by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Lomita station.
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(although I think they had moved to "news/talk" some time ago)
Was another car involved? It doesn't look like it. Were there any witnesses? Apparently not, or if there were, they left the scene.
The photos of his car look like the engine is completely out of the car, and the collision was head on. The car must have rolled head first down the hill. Even if he was wearing a seat belt, it would have meant life-threatening injuries.
Healing thoughts for Tiger Woods.
Thanks BumRush!
They also said that "he didn't have life-threatening injuries" so that is good news. I think his bigger issue is this will add to his already chronic pain problems. 
although the worst ones aren't on hills but follow a creek and have resulted in so many accidents that they have spent the better part of several years doing major upgrades to it, not only to improve drainage and traction, but for "traffic calming" and installation of visibility improvements. I.e., the street was where Teddy Pendergrass had his paralyzing accident almost 40 years ago that totaled his Rolls -
There are curves along it that before they put in heavy duty reflective signage, particularly on rainy nights when the power would often get cut on the street lights, you'd have accidents like this -
