"Tiger Woods crash leads to review of road" He was on his way to a film shoot on a known bad road
The road looks fine, but it’s not.
I am not a golfer. I am not a Tiger Woods fan. I was really irritated at MSNBC’s decision to run 4+ hours of coverage that amounted to repeating the same 20 minutes of info we heard in the first 20 minutes.
That said — The insistence that he was drunk or doped, that he had to be going 100mph, that he was running late because he’d been banging a waitress... that was all here at a liberal discussion board. Immediately. Now dropped for Lady Gaga’s kidnapped dogs and almost-murdered dogwalker.
So I just want to add this here from an actual newspaper, today. Please read.
https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/latimes/default.aspx?edid=82fe7e30-0fab-4f22-85d4-4c2a3e183800
For decades, residents on the Palos Verdes Peninsula have known that the steep, curving stretch of Hawthorne Boulevard heading into the Los Angeles Basin was a danger zone.
Numerous crashes dating from the 1970s — including one in which an out-of-control truck hit a car, burning three occupants to death — sparked debates about how to make the essential thoroughfare in and out of the tony coastal area safer.
“People speed down the road all the time. It is kind of an optical illusion, and it doesn’t seem like that huge a grade, but it is,” said Keith Swensson, a retired Los Angeles County sheriff’s commander who lives in Rancho Palos Verdes.
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Nothing in the sequence of events points to reckless driving or any other crime, (Sheriff) Villanueva said. Even if the cause was distracted driving, that would be “an infraction,” not a crime, he said.
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The descent of the hill is routine for many commuters but can be treacherous even for those familiar with the road.
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On Hawthorne today, signs warn trucks to use lower gears, and an emergency turnout occupies the right shoulder toward the bottom of the hill.
Villanueva noted that it is easy for drivers to go faster than the 45 mph speed limit if they are not careful.
“In this stretch of road, going downhill on a curve, even if you’re not accelerating, just by gravity alone, you’re going to start going faster,” he said.
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(Woods) stayed in the L.A. area after hosting the Genesis Invitational and was on his way to the Rolling Hills Country Club on Tuesday morning for a film shoot after spending the night at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, said a source familiar with the investigation.
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Shortly after Woods crashed Tuesday morning, yet another collision occurred on Hawthorne.
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it's awful stretch. You have to ride your breaks all the way down otherwise you can end up barreling down that hill at an excessive speed when you don't intend to. 
