How did this accident happen? I haven’t seen anything on that yet.
People are obsessing over this car accident.
Accidents do happen. Maybe the average person just needs something to fill their minds right now. Something huge that is happening to somebody else. Many folks on lockdown are crazy bored. For some, Pro Sports is not the instant lure it used to be, now having been effected with politics.
Driving to fast appears to be the cause, not a accident it is human fault.
When you analyze traumatic orthopedic injuries it is important to understand the physics. All that energy directed against biological tissue causes predictable havoc and destruction. Actually Tiger is very lucky to be alive. If the vector of all that kinetic energy were directed toward his head or neck, he would have been dead.
Hope he gets through this without losing his leg. A friend who fell off a ladder last year lost from the knee down to an amputation after repeated infections. Best case for Woods is gaining full leg function back after at least a year or two recovery. I had a maisonneuve fracture in November and jaws in casts then boot until last week, and am a long way from full recovery, my break (both tibia and fibula, spiral type from twisting and falling) was very mild compared to Woods.
Hopefully he avoids infection and has a great recovery. I don’t think he’ll be competitive again. He’s 45 and may not return until he’s 47. Even Phil knows at 51 the chances of winning the elusive US OPEN are near zero.
Tiger will be welcomed back in a year or so with great and deserved fanfare. He was great foe the game and his appearances will still boost interest immensely.
But for a competitor at that level he has to be kicking himself knowing what’s ahead.
“That the injuries occurred to the lower-right leg of Woods is not surprising, Jung said, because those typically happen when a driver is slamming on the brake, as opposed to the left leg, which might be off to the side.”
I had a great Dad as my driving teacher and drove standards for much of my life. I can’t believe the above sentence. That’s the way I drive, but most people don’t. It seems like most of the time that I have someone in the car with me, sooner or later the comment is made, “why is your left foot just sitting there, why don’t you use it on the brake.”
I always resist the urge to say, “because I don’t want to drive down the street with the accelerator and brake BOTH being depressed like so many of you idiots do.”
You could tell he was an evil Trump supporter. Lester Holt spent WAY too much time on this last night, on the NBC Nightly News, trying to infer that Tiger must have done something wrong or illegal, but they hadn’t found anything yet, but they will keep investigating.
Prayers up for Tiger Woods to have a great recovery, at least such that he is not in pain.
Broken? OK, but more like shattered.
Tiger Woods and Ashley Judd will be in the same rehab hospital : )