{"id":191342,"date":"2021-03-01T15:26:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tiger-woods-may-have-fallen-asleep-at-wheel-experts-suggest\/"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:26:15","slug":"tiger-woods-may-have-fallen-asleep-at-wheel-experts-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tiger-woods-may-have-fallen-asleep-at-wheel-experts-suggest\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tiger Woods may have fallen asleep at wheel, experts suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tiger Woods may have fallen asleep at wheel, experts suggest<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Tiger Woods app<\/a>eared to not be paying attention in the moments before his devastating crash \u2013 and may have fallen asleep at the wheel of the luxury SUV he was driving, according to a report citing forensic car accident experts.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old links legend was driving a 2021 Genesis GV80 alone when he veered across the media<\/a>n on Hawthorne Boulevard in Rancho Palos Verdes, went off the road and struck a tree \u2014 causing the car to roll over.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, adding that the evidence indicates he braked late into the collision sequence.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, this is like a classic case of falling asleep behind the wheel, because the road curves and his vehicle goes straight,\u201d Jonathan Cherney, a consultant who serves as an expert witness in court cases, told the news<\/a> outlet.<\/p>\n

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Tiger Woods\u2019 overturned car is seen after the accident that shook the sports world on Feb. 23, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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The former police detective examined the crash site in person.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a drift off the road, almost like he was either unconscious, suffering from a medical episode or fell asleep and didn\u2019t wake up until he was off the road and that\u2019s where the brake application came in,\u201d Cherney told USA Today.<\/p>\n

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Tiger Woods broke several bones in his lower right leg in his car accident on Feb. 23, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has said there were no skid marks to indicate braking \u2014 but the vehicle had anti-lock brakes, so even if Woods slammed on the brakes, \u201cyou wouldn\u2019t necessarily see tire marks,\u201d Felix Lee, an accident reconstruction expert, told the outlet.<\/p>\n

Lee said a key clue is how the SUV did not change direction entering the curve.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy feeling is that speed wasn\u2019t that much of an issue. It was just some kind of inattention that caused the curb strike,\u201d said Lee, who is part of the Expert Institute, a network that provides expert witnesses in court cases.<\/p>\n

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Workers move a vehicle after a rollover accident involving golfer Tiger Woods on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021 in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.<\/figcaption>
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Cherney also said he didn\u2019t see evidence of \u201cany steering input\u201d that would show the golfer tried to avoid the accident.<\/p>\n

Rami Hashish, principal at the National Biomechanics Institute, which investigate accidents told USA Today that this suggests a \u201cvery delayed response.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was suggesting he wasn\u2019t paying attention at all,\u201d said the expert, adding that he suspects the damage would have been much greater if Woods had been travel<\/a>ing at an excessive speed.<\/p>\n

The speed limit on that stretch is 45 mph.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can walk away with a broken leg from 45 to 50 mph,\u201d Hashish said. \u201cIf you\u2019re hitting 60, 65 and you\u2019re hitting a stationary object, your likelihood of death increases exponentially.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies gather evidence from the car that Tiger Woods was driving at the time of the accident on Feb. 23, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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If he was speeding at 80 mph, \u201che wouldn\u2019t be having an open fracture in this leg \u2014 he\u2019d be dead,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The sheriff has said investigators didn\u2019t know the vehicle\u2019s speed yet but said it could have been a factor, as well as inattentiveness.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis stretch of road is challenging, and if you\u2019re not paying attention, you can see what happens,\u201d Villanueva said Wednesday, adding that the crash was \u201cpurely an accident\u201d in a preliminary assessment.<\/p>\n

There was no evidence of impairment or medication involved, he added.<\/p>\n

However, the experts were surprised that Villanueva had determined it to be an accident without yet having examined the SUV\u2019s \u201cblack box\u201d computer, which could reveal steering, braking or acceleration actions before impact.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no real accident unless it\u2019s a true medical emergency,\u201d Cherney said. \u201cThere\u2019s always some level of negligence, whether it\u2019s simple negligence like looking down at your phone or changing the radio station that starts the whole collision sequence.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo when the sheriff is saying this is just an accident, I don\u2019t know how in the world you can state that so early in the game<\/a> without completing an in-depth thorough investigation and reconstruction analysis,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

In 2017, police found Woods asleep at the wheel in Florida. A toxicology report said he had Vicodin, Dilaudid, Xanax, Ambien \u2014 which is used to treat sleep problems \u2014 and THC in his system at the time.<\/p>\n

Cherney also questioned whether the SUV actually rolled over \u201cseveral times,\u201d as Villanueva has indicated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI consider a rollover one full revolution, not just falling onto the side,\u201d Cherney said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that vehicle experienced as many revolutions or complete rolls as they are portraying.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his first comments after the crash, Woods said Sunday: \u201cIt is hard to explain how touching today was when I turned on the tv and saw all the red shirts,\u201d referring to his peers\u00a0wearing his signature Sunday outfit\u00a0of red shirt and black pants during the final round of the WCG-Workday Championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo every golfer and every fan, you are truly helping me get through this tough time.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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