Could Tiger Woods have fallen asleep before the crash? Accident forensic experts have suggested that the American golfer may have fallen asleep or been careless while driving.

Arguing in USA Today , 3 car accident forensic experts said that available evidence from the car accident involving Tiger Woods shows

That the famous American golfer was not concentrating on driving and slid off the road. 

Other experts also said the evidence did not show Woods lost control of his vehicle because of speeding on a curved downhill road known to be an accident hot spot.

They based this hypothesis on a number of factors, especially the fact that Tiger’s car seemed to continue straight ahead when entering the right curve. 

The 45-year-old golfer was traveling north near Los Angeles when his sports car left the lane, crossed the median, hit a tree, rolled over and flipped several times.

Woods suffered multiple fractures in his right lower leg, which suggests he was using the brakes at the time of impact, according to experts. 

They also said evidence showed Woods applied the brakes late when the car had already collided. “To me, this looks like a case of falling asleep behind the wheel, because the road was curved and his car was going straight,” said Jonathan Cherney, who consults on auto accident analysis as an expert in making evidence in the trials said. Cherney is a former police detective who directly inspected the scene of Woods’ accident that occurred on the morning of February 23. He added: “It was a long slide on the road, he almost passed out, or fell asleep and didn’t wake up until the car went off the road and that’s when the brake application occurred.”

According to Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, there were no skid marks on the road that would indicate the use of brakes. Woods’ car has anti-lock brakes. “So even if he had hit the brakes before hitting the curb, “you wouldn’t have seen the tire tracks,” said Felix Lee, an accident reconstruction expert with a network that provides expert witnesses in litigation, said. Lee said the main clue was how the car did not change direction when entering the curve but went straight into the median. “My feeling is that speed is not too much of an issue. It was just a lack of concentration that caused the crash,” Lee said.

Rami Hashish, head of the National Institute of Biomechanics, which analyzes the causes of crashes, said the data showed Woods’ “very delayed reaction” to the situation, so “it shows I see he’s not concentrating at all.” Hashish said he suspected the damage to the car and Woods would have been much greater had he been speeding (the speed limit on that stretch of road is 45 mph – more than 72 km/h). “You can walk with a broken leg at 45 to 50 mph,” Hashish says. If you’re hitting 60, 65 and you’re hitting a stationary object, your chances of dying increase exponentially. If he was going 80 mph, he wouldn’t have broken a bone in his leg. He will die.”

Villanueva, the Los Angeles County sheriff, said he did not know the car’s speed but said it could have been a factor, as could inattention while driving. The accident was so serious that it could have ended Woods’ golf career. Rescue workers had to break the windshield to get the golfer out of the car to be transported to the hospital for surgery.

Villanueva later said that the crash showed no evidence of impairment of control or drug involvement. He also said Woods was “lucid” at the time sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene. But that doesn’t mean he could have been unconscious while driving until he crashed. Experts find it puzzling that Villanueva determined this was an accident without checking the car’s black box, because it could reveal the golfer’s steering, braking or acceleration actions before the collision. touch.

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