Tiger Woods Transferred to New Hospital as He Continues to Recover
Tiger Woods has been moved to a new hospital in Los Angeles as he continues to recover from multiple injuries sustained in a serious car accident this week.
The 45-year-old golf star underwent surgery to stabilise compound fractures of his tibia and fibula following the horror crash on Tuesday.
“Woods was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for continuing orthopaedic care and recovery,” Harbor-UCLA Medical Center interim CEO Anish Mahajan said on the hospital’s Twitter account.
“It was an honour to provide orthopaedic trauma care to one of our generation’s greatest athletes.”
Woods suffered serious leg injuries when his car hit a kerb and then a tree before rolling several times on the border of Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes in Los Angeles on Tuesday morning and No other cars were involved.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff said Woods would not face criminal charges in the crash, claiming the sportsman was “not drunk” at the wheel and that it was “purely an accident”.
But he said investigators may seek warrants for a blood sample to definitively rule out alcohol and drugs.
Investigators are expected to rely heavily on data stored in the Genesis SUV he was driving to figure out what happened.
The 2021 GV80, made by Hyundai, is likely to have a newer version of event data recorders nicknamed “black boxes” after more sophisticated recorders in airplanes – which store a treasure trove of data for authorities to review.
Detectives could also apply for warrants for the golfer’s phone to see if he was driving distracted.
The 15-time major champion was cut free from the vehicle and rushed to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center where he underwent surgery.
The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he is now, is ranked as the second-best hospital in the western US in the US News and World Report.
Woods, who recovered from numerous surgeries to win the 2019 Masters in a successful comeback, has received an outpouring of support from his celebrity friends, athletes and former US Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama in the wake of the crash.
