Tiger Woods told police after the accident that he did not remember driving

Woods was driving on February 23 in Rancho Palos Verdes, near Los Angeles, shortly after 7:00 am Pacific time, when his Genesis SUV hit the “Welcome to Rolling Hills Estates” sign, crossed a central divider and drove further 50 meters at the side of the road through bushes and uprooted trees before stopping at the driver’s side, according to the testimony.

Woods suffered wounds and cuts to his face and multiple fractures and open fractures to his right leg, the statement said.

The documents, obtained by CNN, say that Woods regained consciousness before the sheriff’s delegates arrived at the scene of the accident. While sitting in the driver’s seat of the vehicle with blood on his face and chin, Woods told police that he did not remember driving or how the collision occurred.

“The deputies asked how the collision occurred. The driver said he did not know and did not remember driving,” said the statement. “The driver was treated for his injuries at the hospital and was asked again how the collision occurred. He repeated that he did not know and did not remember driving.”

A witness also approached the vehicle after hearing the accident and noted that Woods was “unconscious and did not answer his questions,” wrote deputy Johann Schloegl, a traffic collision investigator in the accident.

There was no evidence that Woods was harmed by drugs or alcohol, according to the first interviews cited by the testimony.

The SUV was supplied to Woods by the sponsor of the golf tournament he organized the previous weekend. The LA County Sheriff’s Office told CNN in a statement earlier this week that it had executed a search warrant for the black box in the courtesy vehicle.

The data stored in the box, along with “various data logging modules” in the vehicle, “can provide information about the driver’s use of the brakes and accelerator”, as well as other factors that can determine the cause of the accident, the sworn statement .

Speaking to USA Today, Schloegl said on Tuesday that the search warrant was just an investigation and he did not consider the investigation to be a criminal investigation.

“If someone is involved in a traffic collision, we have to reconstruct the traffic collision, if there was any reckless driving, if someone was on their cell phone or something,” Schloegl told the network. “We determined whether there was a crime. If there was no crime, we closed the case and it was a normal traffic collision.”

Officials said earlier that they believe the incident was “purely an accident”, but they would have to pull the event recorder out of the vehicle’s black box to make that determination.

CNN’s Alexandra Meeks, Sarah Moon and Christina Maxouris contributed to this report.

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