A landslide in Southern California sent luxury homes on the state’s Palos Verdes Peninsula into a canyon after officials evacuated residents over the weekend. The land movement began Saturday in the California city of Rolling Hill Estates when cracks began to form in the ground and physical structures. City officials said 12 homes were red-tagged…
UPDATE: Tiger Woods awake and recovering in hospital following serious car crash
(UPDATE: Feb. 24 @ 9 am) - Tiger Woods is awake and recovering in hospital after suffering multiple injuries to his leg in a serious car crash Tuesday.
According to a statement from his social media channels, Woods had to undergo a “long surgical procedure on his lower right leg and ankle.” Mr. Woods suffered significant orthopedic injuries to his right lower extremity that were treated during emergency surgery by Orthopaedic trauma specialists at Harbour-UCLA Medical Centre, a level 1 trauma centre, said Dr. Anish Mahajan in the statement. Comminuted open fractures affecting both the upper and lower portions of the tibia and fibula bones were stabilized by inserting a rod into the tibia. Additional injuries to the bones of the foot and ankle were stabilized with a combination of screws and pins.
In the aftermath of a car crash authorities said Tiger Woods was lucky to survive, a police officer at the scene said the golfing legend did not realise how severely he was injured.
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