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Or they reported what the hospital reported
Professional golfer Tiger Woods sustained facial lacerations in a car accident early this morning outside the driveway of his Isleworth home, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
Woods, 33, pulled out of his driveway about 2:25 a.m. when he struck a fire hydrant and drove into a tree at his neighbor’s property, FHP reported.
Woods was transported to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee in serious condition, FHP said.
Officials close to accident investigation told the Orlando Sentinel that Woods received facial lacerations. Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn told CNN that the golfer, who is No. 1 in the world rankings, had facial cuts in a minor accident.
Woods was treated at Health Central early this morning and released.
FHP spokesman Jorge Delahoz said patients’ conditions are always classified as “serious” if they are transported to a hospital.
Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, told USA Today that Woods was fine following the accident.
FHP said alcohol is not considered a factor in the accident, and it is unknown whether he was wearing a seat belt.
The crash is under investigation, and charges are pending.
“When I first heard about it, my heart jumped a beat. But then I googled it and found a story and it sounds like he’s OK,” veteran PGA Tour golfer Mark Wilson said. “Knowing him, he was probably leaving for an early-morning workout.”
Inside the gated Isleworth community, a security guard was standing post outside the front of Woods’ $2.4 million home. A woman who answered the door at the home at mid-afternoon declined to answer questions from the Sentinel.
A black Cadillac SUV was sitting in the driveway. FHP said Woods was driving a black Cadillac SUV at the time of the crash.
There were almost no signs of an accident at Woods’ home and his next door neighbor’s.
An orange-and-white street barricade sat on Woods’ front lawn atop a newly dug hole, presumably where the fire hydrant previously sat.
About 10 feet away, a foot-long tire mark was visible in the neighbor’s yard near a tree with freshly damaged bark. That oak tree had a few scuff marks on its trunk but was largely undamaged.
The airbags in Woods’ Cadillac Escalade did not deploy, which means the vehicle was traveling under 33 mph, according to FHP.
Orange County Fire Rescue received the call for aid at 2:28 a.m. Woods was transported from his Windermere-area neighborhood by the hospital’s own ambulance.
According to his official website, TigerWoods.com, he is in the middle of a two-week break in tournament play. Woods next tournament is Dec. 3-6 at the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks
so exactly does one accidently a fire hydrant and the accidently into a tree at 2:30 in the mornin outside of there own house?
His putting has always been better than his driving :ohnoes:
Looks like it was a domestic dispute between him and his wife. TMZ NEVER LIES!
He accidently the whole fire hydrant?
Sooo I say his wife smashed the window prior to him getting in the accident.
They posted his address in the police report. I tried to check it out on google streetview, you can’t get within a mile of the house at least.
It is a gated golf course community in florida…
Big Surprise…
Shaq and J-Lo are his neighbors
2.4MM… seems pretty modest for someone like him… im sure it’s not his only house… but still…
ooo, good angle. I didnt even think of that.
Goddamnit Tiger, halloween was weeks ago
good point. it would be damn easy to accidentally a hydrant and a tree if you ate glass and a rolling pin just seconds before
Tiger Woods did not suffer facial lacerations from a car accident. They were inflicted by his wife, Elin Nordegren – according to a conversation Woods had Friday after the accident.
Tiger has yet to be formally interviewed by the Florida Highway Patrol – that should happen this afternoon. But we’re told Tiger had a conversation Friday – with a non-law enforcement type – detailing what went down before his Escalade hit a fire hydrant.
We’re told he said his wife had confronted him about reports that he was seeing another woman. The argument got heated and, according to our source, she scratched his face up. We’re told it was then Woods beat a hasty retreat for his SUV – but according to our source, Woods says his wife followed behind with a golf club. As Tiger drove away, she struck the vehicle several times with the club.
We’re told Woods became “distracted,” thought the vehicle was stopped, and looked to see what had happened. At that point the SUV hit the fire hydrant and then hit a tree.
We’re also told Woods had said during the conversation Friday he had been taking prescription pain medication for an injury, which could explain why he seemed somewhat out of it at the scene.
(918): i guess i finally out drove tiger woods this morning…
i dont beleive it, im sure hitting the hydrant caused the frame to buckle and jam the doors shut, so obviously his wife HAD to bash out the back window to remove him from the vehical
anyone have an escalade ? if the suv was in drive the doors should automaticly lock right? and that includes the rear hatch … so what is she REALLY claiming she did? smash the rear window and climb over all the seats and then drag him BACK over all the seats and through the broken rear window ?
oh, and somehow he cut his face on the steering wheel in the process.
She told officers she was in the house when she heard the accident and “came out and broke the back window with a golf club,” he said, adding that the front-door windows were not broken and that “the door was probably locked.”
OnStar Fail 
the cops came to the house o interview him and his wife said he was sleeping, the cops decided to come back today instead----hmmm would any of us gotten that treatment?
Gated Community cops can’t come in.