Florida Highway Patrol officers were preparing to interview Tiger Woods today as they continue their investigations into the car accident which left the world number one golfer with facial lacerations.

Florida Highway Patrol officers were preparing to interview Tiger Woods today as they continue their investigations into the car accident which left the world number one golfer with facial lacerations.

Woods received the injuries in the early hours of Friday morning, in an accident described by his spokesman in a statement on Friday as "minor", when he lost control of his sports utility vehicle and reversed into a fire hydrant outside his Isleworth, Orlando, home.

Woods' Cadillac then hit a tree in a neighbour's garden with police reporting that officers found the golfer lying in the road being tended to by his wife Elin but drifting in and out of consciousness.

As part of an ongoing investigation, troopers from the Florida Highway Patrol were set to interview Woods today to hear the 33-year-old's version of events, police spokesman Sergeant Kim Montes told Press Association Sport.

"A couple of troopers were sent to the hospital to talk to Mr Woods on Friday to get his side of what happened as the driver of the vehicle," Sgt Montes said.

"He had already been discharged so we went by the house and Mrs Woods invited us in and when she went to go back, Tiger was sleeping.

"So we agreed to come back today, though that's not preferential treatment. We've done that on other crashes.

"The schedule for today is that the troopers come back on duty at 3pm (8pm GMT) and shortly thereafter they will go over to the Woods residence and give Mr Woods an opportunity to tell us what happened."

Sgt Montes added that the troopers were specifically interested in the particulars of the accident.

"There's a lot of rumours and scenarios that are being thrown out there about all kinds of different things that may have happened but right now the only evidence that we have is that this is just a traffic crash," she said.

"If our investigation takes us in a different direction then we'll let the media know. We will investigate every part of this and that's just a normal part of our investigation to help us figure out why he lost control and struck the fire hydrant and the tree."

Sgt Montes also said investigators had not yet reviewed the tape of the emergency 911 call made after the accident but the content would be released once those reviews had taken place.

World number one tennis player Roger Federer, who like Woods is sponsored by Gillette and has appeared in TV ads along with him and footballer Thierry Henry, said: "I haven't spoken to him. And I heard it's not too serious, which is a good thing."