Woods' Career Is Likely Over After Injuries

He said, “This remains an accident. An accident is not a crime.” Villanueva said Woods could eventually be cited for inattentive driving, which would just be an infraction.

Woods was recovering after surgery for significant injuries to his right leg, including compound fractures, which could spell the end of his career. At age 45, Woods has already had multiple surgeries on his left knee and back, and at the time of the accident, he was still recovering from a microdiscectomy to remove a pressurized disk that was pinching a nerve.

He’d played only seven times since July, never making it into the top 35.