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Flordia police yet to interview world number one following car accident

Last updated: 1st December 2009

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Florida Highway Patrol investigators are still waiting to interview Tiger Woods following his car accident in the early hours of Friday morning.

On Saturday, officers were denied the chance to speak to the world number one for the second day in a row - Woods having suffered facial lacerations when his car reversed into a fire hydrant.

In an accident described by his spokesman as "minor", the 33-year-old's sports utility vehicle also hit a tree in a neighbour's garden in Isleworth, Orlando.

Police reported that officers found the golfer lying in the road being tended to by his wife Elin - who had apparently smashed a window with a golf club in order to free her husband - but drifting in and out of consciousness.

As part of an ongoing investigation, troopers from the FHP are to interview Woods to hear his version of events.

However, police spokesperson Sergeant Kim Montes issued a statement by e-mail on Saturday stating the planned interview had not yet taken place.

"Florida Highway Patrol has received information that Tiger Woods and his wife were not available to be interviewed by state troopers, as we had previously scheduled," the statement read.

"This announcement came from his agent. Troopers were asked to return tomorrow (November 29)."

Treatment

Earlier in the day, Sgt Montes had stressed Woods was not being treated differently to other drivers in similar situations having also failed to meet troopers visiting his home on Friday.

"A couple of troopers were sent to the hospital to talk to Mr Woods on Friday to get his side of what happened as the driver of the vehicle," Sgt Montes said.

"He had already been discharged so we went by the house and Mrs Woods invited us in and when she went to go back, Tiger was sleeping.

"So we agreed to come back today, though that's not preferential treatment. We've done that on other crashes."

Sgt Montes said troopers had been due to return to the golfer's house shortly after 8pm GMT on Saturday to "give Mr Woods an opportunity to tell us what happened".

She added that the troopers were specifically interested in the particulars of the accident.

"There's a lot of rumours and scenarios that are being thrown out there about all kinds of different things that may have happened but right now the only evidence that we have is that this is just a traffic crash," she said.

"If our investigation takes us in a different direction then we'll let the media know. We will investigate every part of this and that's just a normal part of our investigation to help us figure out why he lost control and struck the fire hydrant and the tree."

Sgt Montes also said investigators had not yet reviewed the tape of the emergency 911 call made after the accident but the content would be released once those reviews had taken place.