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Yesterday, shortly after 7AM local time in Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, Tiger Woods suffered serious injuries in a rollover crash.

According to CNN, the SUV he was driving “crossed a median and went across two lanes of road before hitting a curb, hitting a tree and landing on its side off the roadway in the brush”.

The LA County Fire Department said he was taken by ambulance to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in serious condition with non-life-threatening injuries, with a source telling CNN he suffered compound fractures in his legs.

You can read more on that here, but let’s see some of the photos and videos shot from the crash site.

These come via The Washington Post:

USA Today also has a number of photos from the scene, which you can see here.

Various aerial shots show just how far off the road Woods’ vehicle had travelled before it came to a rest:

Here is an aerial look at Tiger Woods’ car after the single-car crash that led to his hospitalization. Hope he’s okay. pic.twitter.com/aPPwwW5i5J

— Josh Sánchez (@joshnsanchez) February 23, 2021

Another helicopter angle of Tiger’s crash pic.twitter.com/Ajo5L30gZj

— gifdsports (@gifdsports) February 23, 2021

The Guardian shared footage of the first responders on the scene giving a press conference, as well as footage from the scene of the crash:

Tiger is recovering from another back surgery – the fifth of his career – so you’d suspect that this is the end of his days as a competitive golfer.

That is tragic, but it could have been so much worse for the father of two, given that Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he was “lucky to be alive”.

Earlier this morning, South African time, Tiger’s official Twitter account released this statement:

pic.twitter.com/vZitnFV0YA

— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) February 24, 2021

If you can’t quite make that out, here are the basics, via ESPN:

Dr. Anish Mahajan of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center updated the famed golfer’s condition, saying in part that he had multiple “open fractures” to his lower right leg, had a rod placed in his tibia, and screws and pins inserted in his foot and ankle during an 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,” said Mahajan, the chief medical officer and interim CEO at Harbor-UCLA. “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.”

A comminuted fracture means the bone is broken into more than two pieces; open means a break in the skin.

Woods is “awake, responsive, and recovering in his hospital room,” according to the statement.

Now we just hope he has as speedy a recovery as possible before any consideration turns toward what this means for his career.

[sources:cnn&washpost&espn]