Fresh questions have been raised about Tiger Woods’ account of the car crash outside his home that led to the unravelling of his private and sporting life, after revelations that the ambulance crew refused to allow his wife, Elin Nordegren, into the ambulance because they thought it was a case of domestic violence.
Records compiled from investigations by the Florida highway patrol, released on Friday night, show that when paramedics collected Woods “one of the crew stated that [his] wife could not go in ambulance because this was a domestic”.
In the few public statements Woods has made about events on the night of November 27, he has consistently denied that he was attacked by his wife. When he delivered a public apology last month for the multiple affairs that emerged following the crash, he said: “Some people have speculated that Elin somehow hurt or attacked me on Thanksgiving Night. It angers me that people would fabricate a story like that. She never hit me that night or any other night. There has never been an episode of domestic violence in our marriage. Ever.”
Snoring
The highway patrol documents confirm Woods was found lying beside his SUV car outside his Florida home, having hit a tree and fire hydrant. The rear window of the car was smashed — apparently by a golf club, and he was seen by a neighbour lying on the ground and snoring.
The documents show police retrieved two small bottles of Vicodin, a moderate painkiller, from the house. Nordegren said Woods had taken some medication earlier in the evening, though not Vicodin.
A police officer at the scene, Jason Sipos, is recorded in the documents saying he never heard Woods or his wife make any reference to domestic violence. Woods has not played professional golf since. – guardian.co.uk