county sheriff obtain search warrant
L.A. County sheriff obtains search warrant in Tiger Woods crash, seeking SUV data
Seeking answers to why Tiger Woods crashed on a dangerous stretch of a Palos Verdes Peninsula highway, a Los Angeles County sheriff's traffic investigator has obtained a search warrant for the pre-crash data from the Genesis GV80 SUV's onboard computer systems. The warrant comes after Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva last week called the rollover crash "purely an accident." The department is seeking the information from the SUV's so-called black boxes to determine the cause of the crash and to reconstruct the traffic incident to determine if the golfing legend was driving at an unsafe speed or was distracted or affected by something else inside the vehicle. Deputy Carlos Gonzalez, the crash investigator who was also the first deputy at the scene and found Woods, 45, in the mangled wreckage, did not seek a warrant for the golfer's toxicology from Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where the athlete underwent surgery on his lower right leg and pins and rods were inserted. Gonzalez said he determined at the scene that Woods was not under the influence, and therefore there was no probable cause for such a blood draw.