Having written that title a couple of times previously over the last decade, the latest single car accident happened this morning in the LA area. Details are slow to come out, but Woods was rushed to the hospital with multiple leg injuries. LAPD confirmed that the injuries were not life threatening.
The forum community has been active in the discussion and you can join in below in the comments section.
Aluminum has better absorption of impact energy than steel. As high as twice as much in some applications. The body will take the brunt of the impact. Downside is, the body takes more damage in all impact scenarios, not just violent collisions.
I wouldn’t want to roll in aluminum.
Unfortunately I’ve heard this quite a bit. It’s never good.
Very fair, and really there’s no telling what he was doing or why.
Accident reconstruction will tell a lot. It seems high rate of speed is a given. From the pictures it looks like he took out a sign with the name of the community he was entering. I would be curious to know say a couple miles preceding the area with the median he crossed over in what type of roadway was it. Was it a divided highway where people would tend to go faster or speed without worry of traffic or pedestrians or animals for that matter. I know from experience sometimes leaving one speed zone for another it might take time to recognize and process the information and slow down.. I dont know the exact formula off the top of my head but it takes a period of time for the mind to process what the eyes are seeing as well as then reacting. Say he was going 70 mph or more in an area and on road he was not familiar with or possibly had never traveled and this is the first time he has ever been in that area . You cover a lot of ground at a high rate of speed. Also they say it was a rollover but looking at the front end damage im guessing it had to be from striking something and then going into the rollover . I think your description is a pretty good theory on what might have happened. Ultimately would like to hear from Tiger what happened did something enter his path was he trying to take evasive action or was he simply distracted for a second. At a high rate of speed thats all it would take . Whatever just an awful situation.
I thought I read somewhere there was fog? Heavy fog is pretty typical on the Pacific at 7 AM when this happened.
I mean part of a plane engine ended up in someone’s front yard recently. Crazy things happen.
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I hope it’s clean and I hope he makes a full recovery.
Hogan recovered from being hit by a Greyhound bus and Tiger has the advantage of better medical practices and tools.
You wouldn’t think so in a new modern car but sure, anything’s possible.
I thought they said no sign of impairment so no warrant for blood draw.
thank god he didn’t kill anyone
They said no sign of impairment but that just means he didn’t smell of alcohol and there was no physical evidence (pills or alcohol bottles). In an accident this bad there is no way an officer can look at a victim and determine that he is or is not under the influence of pain medication. They could not do a sobriety test so the only way to prove or disprove impairment would be a blood draw.
I’m no doctor but I would assume they would do blood work before his surgery. The anesthesiologist would not want to overdose him if he was on pain meds.
Please don’t take this as an attack on Tiger, I want him to be clean and healthy.
Pretty sure one of the officers said during the press conference that blood was not drawn as there was no reason to suspect impairment. Once you make a statement like that on record I imagine it’s tough to get court approval to review any testing the hospital may have done on their own.
Dodging a deer or squirrel is one of the most logical reason known to man…..unless you’re TW. LOL!
I have read quite a few reports and other social media speculation, so it is starting to blur. I, too, recall reading something about fog. I also remember reading that weather did not play a factor. From a negligence analysis, if there is fog, the condition is known and the driver would have a duty to slow down to accommodate for the condition. Not doing so would be negligence.
There are instances where a weather condition could be the precipitating cause of an accident where nobody is at fault. Sometimes, there can be ice that is not observable. If the ice could not be detected and resulted in an accident, the driver may not be culpable.
I read several reports that, iirc, said that the speed limit was 40 or 45 (can’t remember which), but that people are often speeding along this stretch of road. It seems to be the consensus that Tiger was driving at a high rate of speed, something that I do all the time. I am a chronic speeder. If I am speeding and get in an accident, I undoubtedly will be held negligent.
These things are always good reminders for all of us to reconsider our driving habits. We all know that cars are deadly machines and it takes only a momentary lapse in judgement to cause disasterous consequences. I am in no way finding fault with Tiger. We all do these things.
Oh for certain. I adjusted auto claims. "Yes sir, even though you wrecked on ice it is still your fault" That was an argument I had to have too many times every winter.
Everyone is Utah speeds. I have no idea why they are all in such a hurry. But, dang every time I am there I feel like I am getting run over going 80…
Do Goats dodge other animals?
Or die, right?
Ha ha. Guilty as charged, although I hardly ever exceed 80, unless the speed limit is 85. I will say that Utahns always say “California driver.” Californians probably say, “Utah driver.”
of course it great that he didn’t die….i would hope no one would root for that.
I have not seen any reports yet that he was driving recklessly. Maybe he was, maybe he wasn’t. I am glad that no one was killed and consider Tiger innocent and lucky to be alive until proven guilty of wrongdoing.
Even if it is proven he was speeding like they said in the news conference, I am not casting stones. People die doing that everyday and aren’t accused of negligence and are mourned for having an accident.
if his car traveled 700 feet after it crashed or crossed the median then he wasn’t just driving down the road, he was doing something he should not have been doing….speeding, texting, drunk, high etc…something. i don’t think he got too involved jamming to billy idol on the radio
The human factors guys I have deposed all put it somewhere about 3/4 of a second for average ordinary folks. It’s 1/3 of a second each for see, appreciate and react. One of them told me that he had seen a couple of drag racers test in the half second range. When I mentioned their reaction times on a track, he said in the tests administered they don’t get the benefit of anticipation.
The wording the LEO used regarding was strange. How did they say it? "relatively greater speed than normal". lol
They could have just said he was "speeding" or "he was way over the limit". I like how the chose their words there.
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The fact of the matter is that you don’t know what happened. Nor do I.
The LEO said he was travelling at a "relatively greater speed than normal". Reading between the lines there, seems evident Tiger was beating the ? out of that Genesis to a degree that probably endangered others.
None of us will ever know exactly what happened in that cockpit though.
100% correct….I’m just speculating like everyone else is.
Clearly you’ve never gotten down with Rebel Yell at a stop light sir… ?
Don’t be too sure of that LOL. A quick hook up to the OBD and you’ll get speed, throttle and brake usage, steering input, lateral load on the car, whether he was wearing a seatbelt, when exactly the airbags fired, what he had for breakfast (I made that last bit up).
I mean yes, its all relative.
It’s Tiger Woods though. Probably different standards for him, than for you and I. That’s probably why the LEO said "relatively greater speed than normal", versus "he was way over the limit".
I am sure Tiger’s lawyers are already on this case for him and will let as little come out as possible.
Did the Sun really send that tweet out as to provide information and outlets are running with it? It shows nothing.
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456 ft @ 66ft/second is 6.9 seconds of elapsed time at posted speed limits. Or shorter time if he was going faster. If he was going 90, still 3.5+ seconds of ET.
(Coincidentally, 6.9 seconds is a top-11 average Driver hang time on the PGA Tour!)
LOL, yeah, fair point.
Just looked it up you have a pretty good memory. And 80 mph is 117.33 feet per second. So put those potential speeds together with entering an area of the road where its speed and type change coupled with the fact a person may never have traveled before and add in the possibility of something entering his path or having to take evasive action and traveling potentially 100-120 feet before the mind can process what the eyes have seen its possible that is what unfortunately happened here.
If I am to believe the article, it shows a G80 identified as his on a section of road near the accident scene. I think this is an attempt to show he was driving normally, but I wouldn’t presume to think for The Sun.
I remember that from sniper school.
Again, full of non golf knowledge.