Crashing down a descent on the road between Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes, south of Los Angeles, Tuesday morning around 7 a.m., Tiger Woods (45) wrote a new episode in his life as a novel .
A page that could have been the last of its existence, as the story of the rescue team who freed the American from his vehicle is chilling.
Firefighters and rescuers had to use axes and "jaws of life" to extract the best golfer in history through the broken windshield.
Miraculously, he was
"conscious, lucid and calm"
.
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Quickly evacuated to a nearby hospital with a trauma unit, Tiger Woods suffered from
"multiple open fractures"
in his right leg, which required urgent surgery.
He had to insert a metal rod into his tibia and screws to consolidate the bones of the foot and ankle.
A long operation, from which few elements have filtered.
In its published press release
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