Posted on 12/04/2009 11:17:01 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Tiger Woods was driving so erratically before his mysterious car crash that he careered into bushes and hedges, up two concrete curbs and swerved across a whole street before ploughing into a fire hydrant and a tree.
The pinball trajectory of his Cadillac was revealed in a police sketch of the incident which shows the golfing superstar had a total of three collisions, not two as previously thought.
As he pulled out of his drive at 2.25am he mounted a concrete curb onto a grass verge. He then tried to turn left onto a road but went all the way across, up another curb and into some hedges.
The SUV then careered left across an oncoming lanes on to his neighbour's lawn where he hit the fire hydrant, before crossing the neighbour's drive and colliding with a tree.
The bizarre series of collisions will raise further questions over what caused Woods to crash.
As he recovers from the wounds to his face and reputation the superstar golfer, is also facing a hefty hit to his wallet, being forced to renegotiate his prenuptial agreement, which could lead to his wife receiving a record breaking $300 million (£180 million) in any future divorce.
Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren, 29, are desperately trying to save their marriage and have been undergoing marriage counselling sessions several times daily at their home in Orlando, Florida.
When the couple married on Oct. 5, 2004, in a wedding at the exclusive Sandy Lane resort in Barbados, Mrs Nordegren signed an agreement which staggered payments and was initially modest by A-list celebrity standards.
It is said to have given her the right to $20 million (£12 million) after 10 years of marriage.
In light of Woods' recent "transgressions" the amount has been increased to $75 million
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
As a forensics expert, I have seen this pattern many times in auto crashes. 95 percent of the time with these multiple single auto crashes, there are either drugs or heavy alchohol consumption involved. Either way, a crime was committed and should be prosecuted under the existing statutes for any citizen of this country.
I’m surely glad that we can verify Jack Nicklaus’ marital fidelity so we don’t have to asterisk his record.
I know nothing about Jack Nicklaus' behavior off the golf course, and nothing I said refers to it. This is about Tiger Woods and the legacy he hoped to secure for himself. He has created his own asterisk, and now he'll have to live with it. If he wanted to spend his leisure hours boinking cocktail waitresses, he would have been well-advised not to marry.
Simple: Tiger also was probably high on drugs.
At least one initial report said he had used a “prescription pain pill” before the crash.
One of the skanks -— the one who got the big hush-money -— alluded to her and Tiger using drugs together. You can imagine that there might be more where that came from, hence the extra large shut-up bucks.
A neighbor said when he got out to the street, Tiger was laying on the road, snoring. After three collisions? Snoring?
Did the police do any tests (on scene or at the hospital) for Tiger being DUI? If not, why not?
Actually, I thought it said something flattering about her that she signed such a “modest” prenup in the first place. Almost like, “okay, but I’m really expecting this marriage to last and be wonderful; we’re just doing this token prenup because our lawyers will go crazy if we don’t.”
She’s not so much offering to stay with him for extra dough as she is negotiating her divorce settlement while she’s still married and while the heat is on. Smart!
And if Tiger redeems himself and changes, then she also ends up with a husband she probably loves and the father of her children in their lives.
Doesn’t sound likely, though. Tiger is demonstrating Thoroughly Arrested Adolescence Syndrome. Awful hard to cure at his age.
No way she hit him on the head with a golf club. That would have caused some serious injuries, which would have been noted.
Here’s what I took from the initial reports, an account which has been totally lost to increased speculation:
Tiger and Elin had a fight in which she scratched up his face and probably pounded on him a bit.
He took off and jumped in the car (screaming something like, “Now you’ve ruined Thanksgiving!” — just a little funfact that made an impression on me).
Since he had taken a prescription pain pill earlier, and he was angry, he drove (DUI) erractically and had a least three collisions before coming to a stop.
The vehicle window may have been broken during one of the collisions or Elin may have been trying to hit the vehicle to get Tiger’s attention and get him to stop trying to drive off in the condition he was in.
Once stopped, he got out of the car, laid on the road and went to sleep. A neighbor reported Elin was sitting quietly by him, holding his hand, while Tiger was snoring.
When the cops arrived, Elin may have panicked and said she broke the vehicle window, etc., in an attempt to explain away Tiger’s DUI.
Elin did give two bottles of prescription drugs to the cops when they inquired about Tiger being under the influence.
This is a pretty typical “truth” for these type of situations.
This type of pinball trajectory (as you call it) is quite typical of highly impaired (drugs or alcohol) driving.
It’s not quite as typical of angry driving, which tends to go wrong once the driver gets up more speed.
That’s a very likely scenario.
Off-topic but, I cannot understand why one would build a multi-million dollar house in a place where the neighbors are less than a stone’s throw over the fence. I’d go for a simpler house on a thousand times more ground. But that’s just me.
It’s a golf course development with the lots squeezed in between the holes.
Exactly right. My wife and I are looking for 40 acres to put a trailer until the (modest) house is built.
I want to bow hunt in by back yard.
I thought that until I read that both his mother and her mother were in the house with them. That tells me all three women confronted Tiger on this issue and he left the house dazed and confused and was probably trying to do something else, like call or text, while leaving.
That'd be neat!
OK. Even so, with the money he's got...
Very true.
I always laugh to myself when I hear a guy who proclaims “I never paid for it in my life”
Not likely.
If the PGA has any integrity, they will distance themselves from Woods.
I will refer to them as NBA level trash if they keep him, because they value cash over ethics just like the NBA does.
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I was wondering that myself.
One point of impact per bimbo?
That’s a huge asterisk by his name in the record book.
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Sport wise, that huge asterisk next his name should be for his Performance Enhancing Drug use, not cheating on his wife.
I'd pop a few pills too.
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