Tiger Woods’ wife Elin Nordegren handed two bottles of pain medication to medical personnel who responded to her husband’s car crash in November, according to records released Friday to the Orlando Sentinel.
Elin reportedly told the officers her husband had taken the medication earlier in the day.
Woods was injured when he attempted to leave his Isleworth mansion in the early morning of Nov. 27. His SUV crashed into a tree in his neighbor’s yard after hitting two curbs, plowing through a row of shrubs and colliding with a fire hydrant.
The Florida Highway Patrol records also show Nordegren was prevented from traveling with her husband to the hospital by the ambulance crew, who told her the incident was a case of domestic violence.
According to the records, troopers attempted to retrieve medical records from the hospital where Woods was taken to determine whether the golfer had been drinking or was under the influence of drugs.
An emergency room nurse at HealthCentral in Ocoee told the officers the records department would not be open until the following Monday. When the troopers returned, the director of medical records at first told them the hospital’s computer system was not working, according to the records. She later stated she could not give them the information they sought without a warrant, the Sentinel reported.
The Florida Highway Patrol ticketed Woods for careless driving and issued him a $164 fine.
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