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By ADAM KILGORE | The Washington Post | Published: April 7, 2021 Tiger Woods late February car crash in Southern California was caused by Woods driving at an unsafe speed and by an inability to negotiate a curve in the road, according to findings released Wednesday after a lengthy delay by the Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department. Woods was driving between 84 and 87 mph in a 45-mph zone when his Genesis SUV smashed into and hopped over a median, Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department officials said at a news conference, citing evidence investigators recovered from a data recorder. Woods car was traveling 75 mph when it hit a tree and rolled into a ditch in Rolling Hills Estates, a neighborhood in the posh suburb of Rancho Palos Verdes.
The 15-time Majors winner had follow up procedures at the Cedars-Sinai Medical, also in Los Angeles, but has now returned home and is happy to continue his rehabilitation.
“Happy to report that I am back home and continuing my recovery,” the five-time Masters winner stated in a statement posted on Twitter.
“I am so grateful for the outpouring of support and encouragement that I have received over the past few weeks.
“Thank you to the incredible surgeons, doctors, nurses and staff at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. You have all taken such great care of me and I cannot thank you enough.”
Sheriff's investigators have obtained a search warrant to access the ``black box'' in the Genesis GV80 SUV golfer Tiger Woods was driving when he crashed in Rancho Palos Verdes, with Sheriff Alex Villanueva saying today it will hopefully help determine what caused the accident.
Investigators used a warrant to retrieve the black box from Woods crashed SUV
Officials hope it will shed light on the the crash that saw Woods
hospitalized
Police did not get blood samples as they did not have probable cause to collect
Forensic experts say evidence points to Tiger Woods being asleep at the wheel
Woods suffered serious injuries to his right leg after car crash on February 23
Luxury SUV veered into median and off road in Rancho Palos Verdes on Tuesday
Los Angeles County Sheriff s Office believed the cause to be an accident
Experts told USA TODAY that Woods may not have been alert at time of crash