Police to talk to Nigger Woods about crash - symptom of promiscuous adulterous TNB?

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https://nypost.com/2021/02/24/tiger...-herman-spotted-visiting-him-at-the-hospital/

Tiger Woods’ White girlfriend Erica Herman spotted visiting him at the hospital
By Gabrielle Fonrouge
February 24, 2021 | 4:44pm | Updated

Tiger Woods’s girlfriend Erica Herman was spotted paying her beau a visit at the hospital Wednesday as the golf pro recovers from emergency surgery on his legs following a roll-over car crash, photos show.

Herman, 44, was seen outside of the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles Wednesday around noon wearing a mask, boots, blue jeans and a purple and blue jacket while walking with a bald man, believed to be Woods’s longtime caddy, Joe LaCava.

Herman left briefly and returned to the hospital with a brown bag potentially filled with food so Woods isn’t stuck eating hospital fare, photos show.

Woods has been in the hospital since Tuesday morning after he flipped his luxury SUV and shattered his ankle and broke both legs in a crash that nearly cost him his life. He underwent emergency surgery Tuesday and is still recuperating, his team said.

Herman has been dating the 45-year-old golf legend since 2017 after they met at the Florida restaurant Woods owns, The Woods.

She’s been spotted in snaps with the athlete’s two children, who he shares with model and ex-wife whore Elin Nordegren, and reportedly gets along well with them.

 

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https://nypost.com/2021/03/01/tiger-woods-may-have-fallen-asleep-at-wheel-experts-suggest/

Forensic experts suggest Tiger Woods may have fallen asleep at the wheel
By Yaron Steinbuch
March 1, 2021 | 7:26am | Updated

Tiger Woods appeared to not be paying attention in the moments before his devastating crash – and may have fallen asleep at the wheel of the luxury SUV he was driving, according to a report citing forensic car accident experts.

The 45-year-old links legend was driving a 2021 Genesis GV80 alone when he veered across the median on Hawthorne Boulevard in Rancho Palos Verdes, went off the road and struck a tree — causing the car to roll over.

Woods broke several bones in his lower right leg, which indicates he was applying the brake at the time of impact, experts told USA Today, adding that the evidence indicates he braked late into the collision sequence.

“To me, this is like a classic case of falling asleep behind the wheel, because the road curves and his vehicle goes straight,” Jonathan Cherney, a consultant who serves as an expert witness in court cases, told the news outlet.

The former police detective examined the crash site in person.

“It’s a drift off the road, almost like he was either unconscious, suffering from a medical episode or fell asleep and didn’t wake up until he was off the road and that’s where the brake application came in,” Cherney told USA Today.

LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has said there were no skid marks to indicate braking — but the vehicle had anti-lock brakes, so even if Woods slammed on the brakes, “you wouldn’t necessarily see tire marks,” Felix Lee, an accident reconstruction expert, told the outlet.

Lee said a key clue is how the SUV did not change direction entering the curve.

“My feeling is that speed wasn’t that much of an issue. It was just some kind of inattention that caused the curb strike,” said Lee, who is part of the Expert Institute, a network that provides expert witnesses in court cases.

Cherney also said he didn’t see evidence of “any steering input” that would show the golfer tried to avoid the accident.

Rami Hashish, principal at the National Biomechanics Institute, which investigate accidents told USA Today that this suggests a “very delayed response.”

“It was suggesting he wasn’t paying attention at all,” said the expert, adding that he suspects the damage would have been much greater if Woods had been traveling at an excessive speed.

The speed limit on that stretch is 45 mph.

“You can walk away with a broken leg from 45 to 50 mph,” Hashish said. “If you’re hitting 60, 65 and you’re hitting a stationary object, your likelihood of death increases exponentially.”

If he was speeding at 80 mph, “he wouldn’t be having an open fracture in this leg — he’d be dead,” he said.

The sheriff has said investigators didn’t know the vehicle’s speed yet but said it could have been a factor, as well as inattentiveness.

“This stretch of road is challenging, and if you’re not paying attention, you can see what happens,” Villanueva said Wednesday, adding that the crash was “purely an accident” in a preliminary assessment.

There was no evidence of impairment or medication involved, he added.

However, the experts were surprised that Villanueva had determined it to be an accident without yet having examined the SUV’s “black box” computer, which could reveal steering, braking or acceleration actions before impact.

“There’s no real accident unless it’s a true medical emergency,” Cherney said. “There’s always some level of negligence, whether it’s simple negligence like looking down at your phone or changing the radio station that starts the whole collision sequence.

“So when the sheriff is saying this is just an accident, I don’t know how in the world you can state that so early in the game without completing an in-depth thorough investigation and reconstruction analysis,” he added.

In 2017, police found Woods asleep at the wheel in Florida. A toxicology report said he had Vicodin, Dilaudid, Xanax, Ambien — which is used to treat sleep problems — and THC in his system at the time.

Cherney also questioned whether the SUV actually rolled over “several times,” as Villanueva has indicated.

“I consider a rollover one full revolution, not just falling onto the side,” Cherney said. “I don’t think that vehicle experienced as many revolutions or complete rolls as they are portraying.”

In his first comments after the crash, Woods said Sunday: “It is hard to explain how touching today was when I turned on the tv and saw all the red shirts,” referring to his peers wearing his signature Sunday outfit of red shirt and black pants during the final round of the WCG-Workday Championship.

“To every golfer and every fan, you are truly helping me get through this tough time.”

 

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https://nypost.com/2021/03/15/forensic-experts-question-probe-into-tiger-woods-crash/

Forensic experts question Tiger Woods crash probe after new finding
By Yaron Steinbuch
March 15, 2021 | 8:36am | Updated

The LA County Sheriff’s Department made several critical decisions in the investigation of Tiger Woods’ devastating crash that were favorable to the golfing legend — who was given the benefit of the doubt despite indications he was inattentive or had dozed off, according to a report.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced on Feb. 23 — when Woods crashed a loaned Genesis GV80, breaking several bones in his leg — that his deputies “did not see any evidence of impairment.”

A day later, he announced that the crash was “purely an accident” and said there had been no need to bring in a drug recognition expert to evaluate the 45-year-old Woods for impairment.

But several forensic experts told USA Today Sports that the available evidence in the case indicates Woods was inattentive or asleep when the SUV went right into a median instead of staying in the lane as it curved right.

They cited clues, including the lack of skid marks indicating braking, for questioning the sheriff’s department’s decision to quickly label the crash an “accident” and to not bring in an expert to have Woods’ blood examined.

“LASD is not releasing any further information at this time,” the sheriff’s department told USA Today Sports in a statement. “The traffic collision investigation is ongoing and traffic investigators continue to work to determine the cause of the collision.”

Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, didn’t return a message from the news outlet seeking comment.

Accident reconstruction experts said the links legend’s inability to remember driving at all was reason enough to bring in a drug recognition expert, or DRE.

“I would have thought that you would have him evaluated by a DRE to see whether or not there are some physical clues beyond the operation that would point to impairment,” said Charles Schack, a former New Hampshire state trooper who is now president of Crash Experts, which analyzes accidents.

“To an untrained person, sometimes the effects are a bit more subtle, and require a bit more in-depth examination to bring out the evidence of impairment,” he told USA Today Sports.

DREs make a determination of whether blood should be tested by questioning the driver about medications and examining the person’s eyes and vital signs, according to the report.

If a DRE had evaluated Woods at the hospital, a blood test could have shown whether there were any medications or other drugs in his system — for which he could have been charged with misdemeanor driving under the influence.
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Instead, a day after the accident, Villanueva said the deputy at the scene concluded that “there was no evidence of any impairment whatsoever.”

“He was lucid, no odor of alcohol, no evidence of any medication, narcotics or anything like that would bring that into question. So that was not a concern at the time. So therefore, obviously no field sobriety test and no DRE,” the sheriff added.

But former detective Jonathan Cherney, who walked the scene after the crash, also said the evidence suggests it was “like a classic case of falling asleep behind the wheel” because “the road curves and his vehicle goes straight.”

If Woods had been looking at his phone momentarily, investigators would expect to see evidence that he braked or tried to steer out of the median long before the wreck.

“Impaired people have a tendency of crashing, so if you have a situation like this one, where you have a single-vehicle crash, with out-of-the-ordinary-type circumstances, that should trigger the first responder to inquire further and to explore impairment as a possible cause of the collision,” Cherney told the outlet.

The accident reconstructionist agreed that the fact that Woods twice told deputies he couldn’t remember driving at all “absolutely” is a clue suggesting impairment.

“I do know significant head injuries can cause people to not know what happened or forget what happened,” Cherney said. “The fact that he doesn’t remember driving at all is also indicative and consistent with the objective symptom of impaired driving.”

However, it is now too late to get access to Woods’ blood and medical reports at the hospital without his cooperation or a search warrant, according to the report.

To get a warrant, police would need to convince a judge it is necessary and show probable cause that a crime had been committed — which would be “difficult,” Chris Taylor, managing attorney at Taylor & Taylor, a DUI defense specialist in Southern California, told USA Today Sport.

The sheriff’s department eventually executed a search warrant to obtain the “black box” data from the SUV that could show how fast Woods was traveling, plus any braking or steering activity prior to impact.

The department has not released any of the findings.

During emergency surgery at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Woods had a rod inserted into his tibia and pins and screws in his foot and ankle. Three days later, he was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and underwent follow-up procedures.

 

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https://nypost.com/2021/03/20/tiger-woods-crash-investigation-shows-he-never-hit-brake-report/

Tiger Woods crash investigation reportedly shows he never hit brake
By Dana Kennedy
March 20, 2021 | 8:25am | Updated

Tiger Woods may never have hit the brake during his devastating rollover crash last month.

Law enforcement sources told TMZ there’s no evidence so far showing Woods slowed down as he veered off the road — and it looks as though Woods never even took his foot off the gas.

The LA County Sheriff’s Department has been studying Woods’ SUV, the crash site and evidence including data from the SUV’s black box. So far, they haven’t found proof that Woods tried to stop the vehicle once he lost control of it, TMZ said.

Woods, 45, was conscious and alert as he was pulled out through the front windshield of the crumbled luxury SUV following the wreck in Rancho Palos Verdes but has said he doesn’t remember the accident.

The Sheriff’s Department did not elaborate on the TMZ report.

“We are not releasing any further information at this time,” an agency spokesman told the Post Saturday.

 

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https://nypost.com/2021/04/07/tiger-woods-crash-reportedly-caused-by-excessive-speed/

Tiger Woods’ crash was caused by excessive speed, LA sheriffs set to announce
By Yaron Steinbuch
April 7, 2021 | 7:08am | Updated

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office is expected to announce Wednesday that Tiger Woods’ horrific crash was caused by excessive speed — but that he will not face any charges or citations, according to a report.

Sources with direct knowledge told TMZ that Woods was speeding when he lost control of his loaned 2021 Genesis GV80 in Southern California on Feb. 23.

TMZ reported that it was told the links legend will not be charged in the accident or issued any citations.

The 45-year-old suffered severe injuries after the SUV struck a raised median, crossed through two oncoming lanes and uprooted a tree on a dangerous downhill stretch.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva will cite speed as the sole cause of the accident , according to the outlet, which also reported it was told that Woods actually accelerated at the time of the wreck — and that just as he lost control, the vehicle gained speed.

News about the expected announcement comes after the sheriff recently refused to disclose newly discovered details on the cause of the crash, citing vague privacy concerns.

“A cause has been determined, the investigation has concluded,” Villanueva said March 31.

“It’s completed, signed, sealed and delivered,” he added. “However, we can’t release it without the permission of the people involved in the collision.”

Meanwhile, TMZ reported Wednesday that police do not know if Woods was conscious at the time of the crash.

Law enforcement sources also told the outlet that the Sheriff’s Department did not obtain a warrant to check on his cellphone to determine if he had been on a call or texting at the time of the accident.

The sources told TMZ that police did not believe they had probable cause to get a warrant for the cellphone records, although that is often done during accident investigations.

Woods was not helpful during the probe because he had no recollection of the crash, the law enforcement sources said, adding that he hit his head three or four times on something hard in the vehicle.

Villanueva has defended his agency’s investigation of the crash, saying the golf great did not receive special treatment from law enforcement.

A witness who was first on the scene just outside Los Angeles said he found Woods unconscious in his mangled SUV. But a sheriff’s deputy said the athlete later appeared to be “calm and lucid” and able to answer basic questions.

Investigators did not seek to collect blood samples from Woods to screen for drugs and alcohol. In 2017, Woods checked himself into a clinic for help dealing with prescription drugs after a DUI charge in his home state of Florida.

Detectives, however, did obtain a search warrant for the data recorder of the vehicle, known as a black box.

Woods was hospitalized with serious injuries due to the crash, which occurred around 7 a.m. in Rolling Hills Estates. The golf star struck a raised median and his vehicle crossed through two oncoming lanes and uprooted a tree on a downhill stretch that police said is known for wrecks.

He is in Florida recovering from multiple surgeries to his legs.

 

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https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/espn-cbs-turn-blind-eye-at-masters-to-tiger-woods-past/

ESPN, CBS turn blind eye at Masters to Tiger Woods’ haunted past
By Phil Mushnick
April 10, 2021 | 2:45pm | Updated

Show of hands: How many of you are stupid? I mean buy-the-Brooklyn Bridge stupid?

By now, one would think it’s time for TV to cut it out. Instead, it remains tethered to the notion that its audiences are predominated by the gullible and unworldly, thus all audiences are to be treated like suckers. And not one network chooses to distinguish itself as the one that considers its viewers as worthy of better, smarter.

So who’s stupid?

Even those who wouldn’t recognize a con if it were sold with multiple, fill-in-the-blanks certificates of authenticity, now know that this 25-year anointment of Tiger Woods as a saint on earth was a media con. Again, it wasn’t enough that he was the world’s best golfer, he additionally had to be the best son, best husband, best father and finest human being.

But if that had been you instead of Woods, the one who, unimpeded at almost double the speed limit, rolled his SUV off the road, you’d have been charged with a pile of negligent driving charges — even while hospitalized and before your blood results returned.

But certified, Sheriff’s Department ignorance was granted him. How could any credible law enforcement have not known of or chosen to ignore Woods’ previous 2017 passed-out, drugged-driving conviction? Woods was the celebrity beneficiary of intentional official negligence from the moment his SUV finally stopped rolling.

Yet, CBS’s shared telecast on ESPN on Thursday unplugged live Masters coverage for a lengthy, hallowed homage to Woods, still at the top of humanity’s leaderboard.

Woods’ absence was noted by ESPN’s Masters host Scott Van Pelt, the reason unspoken. “Tiger knows that the competitors here are thinking about him,” he preached.

He then threw it to Curtis Strange, who recalled Woods’ Masters accomplishments, specifically heading into the waiting arms of “his family” — as if he were the first and only Masters or hop scotch champ to be greeted by loved ones.

Van Pelt: “It was impossible to miss a young man hugging his father in ’97, and that man, now a father, [two years ago] hugging his children in the very same spot.” Ugh.
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Woods, now on at least two self-inflicted occasions — a third was when he crashed his car while on the narcotic Ambien after that fight with his now ex-wife — is lucky to be alive, lucky his kids still have a father, lucky to have not caused serious injury or death to the children of other parents.

Had he taken someone’s life, he could have been charged with vehicular manslaughter.

And his serial infidelity that inspired his then wife to go after him with a golf club? Shhhh.

For him to still be sainted on the national telecast of a major as a gift from above was designed to be swallowed by the tiny fraction of fools still available to be fooled. That’s supposed to be all of us. Again. And it’s nauseating. Again.

Of course, there was the more standard TV dishonesty to suffer.

Oh, look! There’s Mike Weir, 2003 Masters champ, with a long putt on 18. Hadn’t seen him all telecast. He’s 13 back, so why now? Because he was about to sink that bomb. What pure, mystical TV prescience to arrive at that moment!

Paul Azinger, now with NBC, during his brief Fox golf career, slipped and told the on-air truth about such “live” coverage: “If he hadn’t have made it, we wouldn’t have shown it.”