Woods Not Expected To Be Charged With Reckless Driving

The 15-time Major winner's crash was "purely an accident," according to LA Country Sheriff Alex Villanueva

Woods Not Expected To Be Charged With Reckless Driving
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The 15-time Major winner's crash was "purely an accident," according to LA Country Sheriff Alex Villanueva

Woods Not Expected To Be Charged With Reckless Driving

Tiger Woods is not expected to face charges after his car accident in Los Angeles.

The 15-time Major winner's vehicle came off the road on Tuesday morning, hitting a kerb and a tree before reportedly rolling over numerous times.

Woods suffered serious leg and foot injuries and was "very fortunate" to have survived the crash, police said.

"A reckless driving charge has a lot of elements into it, this is purely an accident," Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said on Wednesday.

“We don’t contemplate any charges whatsoever in this crash.

"This remains an accident. Accident is not a crime. They do happen, unfortunately.”

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He also said that Woods was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

"He was not drunk .We can throw that one out," he said.

"Because it [the road] is downhill, it slopes and curves, that area has a high frequency of accidents. It is not uncommon."

There is currently discussion over whether a search warrant is necessary to see if Tiger was on his phone at the time of the crash.

The detectives are also looking into whether the car had a black box onboard to find out the speed at which the American was travelling.

Deputy Sheriff Carlos Gonzalez, who was the first officer on site at the crash scene, is said to be filing the traffic report and “has all the information he needs from Mr. Woods.”

Over the last 14 months, there have apparently been 13 accidents and four injuries on the stretch of road where Woods' accident happened.

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Elliott Heath
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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!


Elliott is currently playing:


Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV