Police in Florida plan to interview Tiger Woods about the events surrounding a car accident outside the golf champion's house.
Woods hit a fire hydrant and tree early yesterday as he pulled his Cadillac Escalade out of the driveway of his house in Windermere, Florida, near Orlando, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
He was treated at a nearby hospital with what police had described as ‘serious injuries,’ but the golfer's office said the accident was minor and that Woods had been released from the hospital in good condition after being treated.
When police arrived at Woods' home shortly after the accident, the golfer was bleeding from the mouth and was ‘in and out of it for several minutes,’ Windermere Police Chief Daniel Saylor told CNN.
He ‘was on the ground, semi-unconscious and had lacerations to the upper and lower lips,’ Mr Saylor said, adding that Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren, used a golf club to smash a window of his SUV to get him out.
Nordegren ‘explained to my officers that the doors were locked and she could not gain entry’ into the crashed vehicle, so she ‘used a golf club’ to smash a window, he said.
