Law enforcement officers view as a crane is utilized to raise a lorry following a rollover mishap including golf player Tiger Woods, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in the Rancho Palos Verdes area of Los Angeles.
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Tiger Woods is not likely to deal with criminal charges coming from the severe auto accident that quickly caught him inside mangled wreckage, a top Southern California police authorities stated Wednesday.
While the district lawyer would have last word, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva stated he can’t fathom Woods dealing with even a misdemeanor charge like careless driving for Tuesday’s crash.
“We don’t contemplate any charges whatsoever,” Villanueva informed press reporters. “This remains an accident; an accident is not a crime. They do happen, unfortunately.”
Woods did disappoint any indications of being intoxicated or under the impact of drugs, according to the constable. Investigators didn’t even generate a drug acknowledgment professional, a deputy who is specifically trained to find indications of disability from drugs.
“This is what it is, an accident,” Villanueva stated. “A reckless driving charge has a lot of elements to it. This is purely an accident.”
Woods might still be blamed for the crash if he were at fault, for instance, for speeding or being sidetracked. But that does not amount to a criminal charge.
“There’ll be a cause of it and there’ll be a vehicle code attached to the cause … but that’s an infraction and reckless driving is actually more than an infraction. It’s a misdemeanor crime that has a lot of elements attached to it,” the constable stated. “There’s nothing like that” here.
Woods crashed his sports energy car early Tuesday early morning on the Palos Verdes peninsula, south of Los Angeles.
That stretch of roadway, on Hawthorne Boulevard near Blackhorse Road, has a difficult curve and downhill slope. It’s been the scene of 13 mishaps because the start of 2020, which has actually consisted of 4 injuries, Villanueva stated.
Woods was mindful throughout the occurrence and had the ability to talk to a reacting deputy.
“I kept him talking,” Deputy Carlos Gonzalez informed NBC’s “TODAY” program. “I asked him basic things to gauge his mental state, like do you know where you are right now? Do you know what day it is? You know, just to see if he was aware of what had occurred.”
