Tiger Woods’ Home, Hydrant and Tree All Part of an Insurance Statistic

Date:December 1, 2009 | Author: | Category:Celebrity Real Estate

According to this Orange County property appraiser, the location of Tiger Woods’ home is part of the exclusive gated Isleworth golf community in Windermere, FL.

And, if you’ve been following the story of how Tiger left his home early on the morning of Friday, Nov. 27 at 2:25 AM and drove his Cadillac Escalade over a fire hydrant and into a neighbor’s tree, you wonder how this can happen. But, if you’re in the insurance business, you’ll know it’s all too common — especially for drivers ages 18 to 34 — to have an accident close to home. The stats show:

  • 77 percent of insurance policyholders involved in an accident were less than 15 miles from home and and more than half were less than five miles from home (Tiger crashed right next door).
  • Driver distraction (texting, talking on cell) is one of the main causes of accidents for drivers 18 to 34 (Tiger is 33).

And this just in: Tiger will be given a careless driving citation.

Huffington Post provides details of the Tiger debacle, complete with photos of the hydrant and tree and bookmaker’s odds of what will happen to Tiger next (admits to an affair, stays with wife, etc.).

The Zestimate on Tiger’s home is $2,391,000.