California police declined to specify the cause of Tiger Woods‘s February car crash, citing “privacy issues.”
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in a Wednesday livestream that authorities would be asking representatives for the golfer whether they could release the information.
“We have reached out to Tiger Woods and his personnel,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “There’s some privacy issues on releasing information on the investigation, so we’re going to ask them if they waive the privacy, and then we will be able to do a full release on all the information regarding the accident.”
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Villanueva also said that the investigation had concluded.
“We have all the contents of the black box. We’ve got everything,” he added. “It’s completed, signed, sealed, and delivered. However, we can’t release it without the permission of the people involved in the collision.”
No criminal charges have been filed against the athlete in response to the incident, and Villanueva reiterated that it was an “accident.”
The sheriff’s Wednesday comments appear to contradict remarks he made on March 17.
“Yes, we’ll have the full thing released, and we’ll do a full press conference and that because I know there’s going to be a lot of questions, and we’ll pick it apart,” he said at the time, according to USA Today.
On Feb. 23, Woods suffered serious injuries after striking a median and crossing through two lanes of traffic going in the opposite direction. Questions have been raised as to whether Woods, who has previously been arrested on charges of driving under the influence, was, in some way, impaired during the crash, but Villanueva has previously said that Woods showed no “obvious” signs of impairment.
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Authorities did not test Woods’s blood following the crash.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Excel Sports, the public relations firm where Woods’s agent Mark Steinberg works, about whether it would consent to have the information released but did not immediately hear back.
