Tiger Woods Badly Injured In Automotive Crash, Seen Rushing from Lodge Minutes Earlier than Accident
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1:47 PM PT — Oliver Konteh, a member of the crew engaged on the TV present “Grown-ish” recounted to us on video what the director stated about Tiger almost hitting his automotive simply earlier than 7 AM.
TMZ has realized … Tiger was staying at a resort the place a serious community tv present was being shot. Manufacturing sources inform TMZ, when the director arrived simply earlier than 7 AM, Tiger was driving his SUV very quick as he was leaving the property and virtually hit the director’s automotive. The director was shaken sufficient to inform manufacturing workers about it after he parked.
A crew member who noticed Tiger as he received in his SUV on the resort tells TMZ, as soon as Tiger received in his car, there was a delay in driving off — we’re advised his SUV was blocked by one other automotive that was loading baggage — and he appeared “agitated and impatient.” The crew member says as soon as the delay was over, Tiger “took off quick.”
Golf Digest says Tiger was scheduled to reach at Riviera Golf Course at 7:30 AM PT for a shoot … he was reportedly going to present Drew Brees classes. The problem is Riviera is at the very least an hour drive from the resort the place Tiger was staying. You get the image … if he was heading out simply earlier than 7 AM, then he knew he was operating late.
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Deputy Carlos Gonzalez — the primary individual to reach on the crash scene — says Tiger is fortunate to be alive after such a horrific crash.
Throughout a information convention moments in the past, Deputy Gonzalez says it was apparent Tiger was badly injured — so he centered on maintaining the golfer calm till paramedics arrived.
Tiger was unable to face on his personal as a result of severe accidents suffered within the crash — and was placed on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance.
Tiger was sporting a seatbelt throughout the crash — and officers consider it may need saved his life.
Deputy Gonzalez says Tiger was lucid and will communicate on the crash scene — and didn’t seem like drunk or some other substance.
Sheriff Alex Villanueva famous there was “no effort to attract blood on the hospital.”
Officers additionally say it was a quick-thinking neighbor who known as 911 — which allowed responders to race to the scene and deal with Tiger in a well timed method.
There’s extra … officers additionally famous the realm the place Tiger crashed is a “hassle spot” for site visitors collisions — with Deputy Gonzalez noting there have been fatalities in that spot prior to now
2:03 PM PT — Opposite to the preliminary launch despatched out by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Division … a supply with the hearth division tells us the jaws of life have been NOT used to free Tiger from the crash.
1:00 PM PT — Regulation enforcement sources inform TMZ Woods was alert sufficient on the scene of the accident to ask first responders to have his supervisor decide up his stuff. We’re advised cops haven’t discovered something illicit contained in the car.
A photograph from the crash scene seems to point out blood on the driving force’s aspect airbag.
12:43 PM PT — Tiger’s good pal, Donald Trump, has issued an announcement in regards to the crash … saying, “Get properly quickly, Tiger. You’re a true champion!”
Tiger and Trump return years … with Trump famously awarding Tiger the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019 to honor Tiger for successful the Masters.
12:18 PM PT — TMZ has obtained the dispatch audio for Tiger’s crash, and it feels like they realized in actual time that Tiger was trapped inside … and have been going to wish backup STAT.
Within the audio, you’ll be able to hear EMS staff name for surrounding roads to be blocked off … and talk about the severity of the crash.
11:52 AM PT — Mark Steinberg, Tiger’s agent, says he sustained a number of leg accidents and is at present in surgical procedure.
11:43 AM PT — An L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. supply tells TMZ Sports activities they don’t consider alcohol was concerned however they didn’t say whether or not some other substance was probably concerned.
Tiger Woods was hospitalized following a nasty single-car accident in L.A. County on Tuesday morning — with officers requiring the jaws of life to free him from the car.
“On February 23, 2021, at roughly 7:12 AM, LASD responded to a single car roll-over site visitors collision on the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes,” officers say.
“The car was touring northbound on Hawthorne Boulevard, at Blackhorse Street, when it crashed. The car sustained main harm.”
“The driving force and sole occupant was recognized as PGA golfer, Eldrick ‘Tiger’ Woods,” officers confirmed.
“Mr. Woods was extricated from the wreck with the ‘jaws of life’ by Los Angeles County firefighters and paramedics, then transported to an area hospital by ambulance for his accidents.”
Unclear what brought about the accident. Cops are investigating.
45-year-old Tiger was within the space for his annual Genesis Invitational golf event on the Riviera Nation Membership within the Pacific Palisades.
Simply this week, he took images with stars like David Spade and Dwyane Wade — and introduced his current again surgical procedure may preserve him out of the upcoming Masters event in Augusta, Georgia.
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It is not the primary time Tiger Woods has been in a high-profile automotive accident — he crashed his SUV in a 2009 incident at his dwelling in Florida.
In 2017, he was arrested after cops discovered him handed out behind the wheel of his automotive. Tiger stated he had taken prescription medicine earlier than the accident and did not notice the impact the meds would have on him.
Justin Thomas — among the best golfers on the planet and Woods’ good pal — received emotional when commenting on the accident Tuesday … saying he is praying for Tiger’s children and household.
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