{"id":3027,"date":"2009-11-27T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T20:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2009-11-27T18:54:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T23:54:13","slug":"breaking-golfer-tiger-woods-injured-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/27\/breaking-golfer-tiger-woods-injured-in-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Golfer Tiger Woods Injured in Car Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Details about the <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/tiger-woods-hurt-car-crash\/story?id=9191395\" target=\"_blank\">incident<\/a> are still sketchy, but he&#8217;s probably the best known professional athlete in the world and it&#8217;s painfully slow news day:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Professional golfer Tiger Woods suffered &#8220;serious&#8221; injuries during a car crash near his Windermere, Fla., home early this morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old Woods was driving a 2009 Cadillac SUV alone when he hit a fire hydrant and then slammed into a tree on Deacon Circle at 2:25 a.m., according to police reports.<\/p>\n<p>Woods was taken to Health Central Hospital in Ococee.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said alcohol was not involved, but they did not know yet what caused the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Charges are pending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> (3:50 p.m.): Reuters is reporting that Mr. Woods has been released from the hospital:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Golfer Tiger Woods has been released from hospital after being injured in a car accident in Florida on Friday, a local Florida mayor told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn said he believed Woods had been released. &#8220;Basically it was facial lacerations, and as I&#8217;m understanding it, nothing that serious,&#8221; Bruhn said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point we know very little about what actually happened all we have to go on is confusing and\/or conflicting media reports and idle speculation on blogs and talk radio. Based on everything I&#8217;ve read so far I suspect this going to turn out to be much to do about very little.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that contrary to early reports the accident and Mr. Woods injuries were fairly minor, time will tell, but I suspect this going to turn out to be nothing more than a minor traffic accident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> (6:50 p.m.): The following <a href=\"http:\/\/web.tigerwoods.com\/news\/article\/200911277723088\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> was released by Health Central Hospital and Tiger&#8217;s Woods&#8217; office earlier this evening:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tiger Woods was in a minor car accident outside his home last night.<\/p>\n<p>He was admitted, treated and released today in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate very much everyone&#8217;s thoughts and well wishes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/breakingnews\/os-bk-tiger-woods-accident,0,1369881.story\" target=\"_blank\">Report: Tiger Woods&#8217; wife used golf club to free Tiger from crash<\/a> &#8211; Orlando Sentinel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details about the incident are still sketchy, but he&#8217;s probably the best known professional athlete in the world and it&#8217;s painfully slow news day: Professional golfer Tiger Woods suffered &#8220;serious&#8221; injuries during a car crash near his Windermere, Fla., home early this morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol The 33-year-old Woods was driving a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[474,17],"tags":[18,400],"class_list":["post-3027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking-news","category-sports","tag-golf","tag-tiger-woods","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-MP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3045,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/02\/tiger-woods-pays-fine-admits-to-transgressions\/","url_meta":{"origin":3027,"position":0},"title":"Tiger Woods Pays Fine; Admits to Transgressions","author":"Jeff","date":"December 2, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The Florida Highway Patrol has closed it's investigation into professional golfer Tiger Woods weekend car accident. 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