Gold player Tiger Woods’ injuries are not life threatening. He is conscious, lucid and alert when paramedics arrived. His status was declared serious but stable.
Woods was extricated from a sports-utility vehicle through the windshield. The front end of the SUV was gone, but airbags deployed and the cabin was relatively unharmed.
There was no evidence of impairment.Tiger Woods is in a “serious condition” and undergoing surgery after suffering leg injuries in a vehicle rollover in the Los Angeles area, authorities and his manager said.Woods has been out of trouble for most of the decade since his infamous marriage breakdown, save for two previous car investigations.
The most notorious was the early morning after Thanksgiving in 2009, when his SUV ran over a fire hydrant and hit a tree.
Woods lost major corporate sponsorship, went to a rehabilitation clinic in Mississippi and did not return to golf for five months.
