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Sources report Tiger Woods in car crash at 2:25 a.m. Thanksgiving evening

The Orlando Sentinel reports that Tiger Woods was seriously injured in a car crash at 2:25 a.m. outside his Windermere home.

The story has now broken and been confirmed all over the Internet and TV news.

Obviously speculation is running rampant about what Woods could possibly have been doing leaving his house at 2:25 a.m. on the morning after Thanksgiving. We will be following both of these stories all day.

***Update*** According to official reports, Woods was released after being treated for “facial lacerations.”

***further update*** According to the Huffington Post with a Doug Ferguson by-line, “a local police chief said his wife used a golf club to smash out the back window and help get the world’s No. 1 golfer out of the SUV. Woods was treated and released from a hospital in good condition, his spokesman said. The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods’ vehicle hit a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbor’s yard as he pulled out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m. Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor told The Associated Press that officers found the 33-year-old PGA star laying in the street with his wife, Elin, hovering over him. She told officers she was in the house when she heard the accident and “came out and broke the back window with a golf club.” Woods had lacerations to his upper and lower lips, and he had blood in his mouth, Saylor said. The chief said Woods was in and out of consciousness when his two officers arrived. He said the officers held Woods to the ground and “when he woke up, he tried to get up and lost consciousness.” He said officers treated Woods for 10 minutes until an ambulance arrived.”

This story gets stranger by the minute.

From Doug’s AP piece:

“Left unanswered was where Woods was going at that hour. Greenspan and agent Mark Steinberg said there would be no comment beyond the short statement of the accident on Woods’ Web site. Woods, coming off a two-week trip to China and Australia earlier this month, is host of the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, Calif., which starts Thursday. He is scheduled to have his press conference Tuesday afternoon at Sherwood Country Club. Steinberg said he did not know if Woods planned to play next week. The accident report was not released until nearly 12 hours after Woods was injured. Patrol spokesman Kim Montes said the accident did not meet the criteria of a serious crash, and the FHP only put out a press release because of inquiries from local media. Montes said the patrol reports injuries as serious if they require more than minor medical attention. Air bags in the SUV did not deploy. Investigators still have not had a chance to speak to Woods, but when they do, “we will ask him everything,” Montes said. “We just haven’t had a chance to do so because he was being medically treated.” Montes said charges could be filed if there was a clear traffic violation, although troopers still do not know what caused Woods’ SUV to hit the hydrant and the tree.”