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Tiger Woods injured in rollover car crash, extracted with 'Jaws of Life'
#21
Also not a great promo for the Hyundai Genesis he was driving, as a spokesperson for the Genesis tournament.


This would be a truly terrible way for his career to end, after all he's done.

I've always marveled at the guy. You can tell he wanted the perfection in sports, not the intense scrutiny of his personal life.
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#22
pRICE cUBE wrote:
This map appears to be the intersection near the incident.


I'm very familiar with that area - I used to live just a little farther up the hill.

Based on the media accounts I've read, I believe the accident occurred a litter further down the hill from the intersection of Hawthorne and Blackhorse -- the circled area in the photo below is where I think the accident most likely occurred. It's the only place along that stretch of Hawthorne where he would be able to go off the road without hitting a house and there is a drop-off from street level on that side of the street that would contribute to the severity of the accident.

Note that he was traveling south on Hawthorne (i.e., toward the top of the photo) - there is a fairly wide median he would have had to cross to go off the road on the other side. The median there has a fair number of trees on it - it's quote possible he hit one, contributing to his loss of control.

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#23
Todd's keyboard wrote:
My memory is that stretch of Hawthorne is a steep descent. Used to drive it fairly frequently in high school. I think it was posted at 45mph back in the seventies. I received my only speeding ticket doing 59. (Again, it's a pretty steep downgrade. To my new-driver sensibility, I was coasting.)

Wish Tiger the best.

Todd's knock-on-wood keyboard

I would classify it as moderately steep. Farther down the road in the direction he was traveling, at the intersection of Hawthorne and PV North, there is one of those runs on the side of the road that trucks can use to stop when their brakes go out.
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#24
Shows probable path in one of the videos:
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#25
Fire Chief quoted as saying they used "hand tools and a fire axe" to get
Tiger out of the wreck. No mention of 'Jaws of Life'.
Appears the pillars held the roof and didn't collapse.
I wish Tiger a speedy and full recovery!

Looks like that could be a Genesis GV80?
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#26
I have heard of people staying up all night drinking, just take a little something to keep awake when you have a early appointment.
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#27
MikeF wrote:
Shows probable path in one of the videos:

Based on the shape of the median opening that appear in that video, it looks like the accident occurred a bit farther south on Hawthorne than I first thought, just past where it runs off the top of the photo I posted.
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#28
Lemon Drop wrote:
Also not a great promo for the Hyundai Genesis he was driving, as a spokesperson for the Genesis tournament.


This would be a truly terrible way for his career to end, after all he's done.

I've always marveled at the guy. You can tell he wanted the perfection in sports, not the intense scrutiny of his personal life.

It’s almost spooky how the mind works.

I am the last person you would call ‘a car guy’, but that part of your post immediately made my antennae vibrate. I googled ‘Hyundai Genesis unintended acceleration’.

Six incidents, as late as 2019 (that owner being a professional mechanic).

Perhaps even more relevant under some of the apparent circumstances, some 2021 Hyundai Genesis are are already under recall order. There is a defect with the fuel pump jet nozzles that can, “... cause an engine to stall, there could be an increased risk of a crash, especially if the car was driving at a high speed.”

There is at least one report that Tiger Woods was seen leaving his hotel driving faster than normal.

Police spokespersons made a few interesting comments. Two of them refer to Woods being alert and lucid at the scene, and one mentioned that Woods showed no signs of impairment, and that that area is the scene of an atypically high number of accidents.

It has also been reported that at the time, Woods was approximately half an hour late for an appearance; the location being roughly an hour away, the appearance scheduled for 7:30am and Woods leaving the hotel at about 7:00am.
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#29
......hope he is out of the.....woods....soon......
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#30
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
I believe the accident occurred a litter further down the hill from the intersection of Hawthorne and Blackhorse -- the circled area in the photo below is where I think the accident most likely occurred.

What photo “below”? I’m seeing an aerial photo above your post, and there’s no “circled area” in it.

N-OS X-tasy! wrote: Note that he was traveling south on Hawthorne (i.e., toward the top of the photo)

In that aerial photo south is down, so traveling south would be towards the bottom of the photo.


(Our daughter lives several blocks away to the west, and said there were helicopters overhead for hours.)
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