Tiger Woods recovering from ‘significant’ injuries after crash

Tiger Woods is awake and responsive Wednesday morning as he recovers from “significant” injuries in a one-car crash that required emergency surgery. 

“Comminuted open fractures affecting both the upper and lower portions of the tibia and fibula bones were stabilized by inserting a rod into the tibia,” Anish Mahajan, the chief medical officer at Harbor-UCLA said. “Additional injuries to the bones of the foot and ankle were stabilized with a combination of screws and pins. Trauma to the muscle and soft-tissue of the leg required surgical release of the covering of the muscles to relieve pressure due to swelling.”

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Woods crashed his SUV, striking a sign and crossing over a raised median and two oncoming lanes before flipping into a ditch before 7 a.m. on Tuesday. 

Rescue crews said they needed to use the jaws of life to extract Woods through the windshield of the car, and he was rushed to the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. 

Authorities indicated late Tuesday there was no  “immediate evidence” that Woods was impaired before the crash, but an investigation remains ongoing.