Tiger Woods Injured

Woods was injured in a car accident early Friday outside his Florida mansion, and a local police chief said his wife used a golf club to smash out the back window and help get the world's No. 1 golfer out of the SUV.
The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods' vehicle hit a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbor's yard as he pulled out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m.They said Woods was alone in his 2009 Cadillac Escalade when he pulled out of his driveway from his mansion at Isle worth, a gated waterfront community just outside Orlando.
The vehicle is the largest in Cadillac's lineup, with the largest EXT version coming in at a hulking 5,909 pounds. Extra heft that can prove valuable in a crash, especially in a collision against a smaller vehicle. Woods' was involved in a solo crash, however.
The Escalade has front airbags for the driver and front passenger, but also side curtain airbags for everyone in the vehicle -- all three rows. In Wood's case, the air bags reportedly did not deploy. Escalade is top-ratedd by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for passenger safety -- five stars across the board. But it only rates three stars for rollover protection.
Oh, and one more thing. Woods could have used the built-in OnStar system to call for help, although there was no immediate indication whether it came into play.
The patrol reported Woods' injuries as serious, although Woods spokesman Glenn Greenspan issued a statement that Woods was treated and released.
Woods, who has won 82 times around the world and 14 majors, attended the Stanford-Cal football game last Saturday, where he tossed the coin at the start of the game and was inducted into Stanford's sports Hall of Fame at halftime.
He won six times this year after missing eight months recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee. Even though he failed to win a major, Woods said he considered this a successful year because he did not know how his knee would respond.