Was Tiger Woods Asleep when He Crashed His Car?

A few minutes ago I saw on the show, Inside Edition, a doctor who was being interviewed by a news reporter.
This doctor indicated that Tiger Woods has not only been taking "an opiate painkiller" but the sleeping medication, Ambien, as well. Tiger had had knee surgery a while back, and needed painkillers for the pain before and after the surgery.

Tiger's neighbor who called the police after his accident and was on the scene immediately afterwards, said Tiger was "snoring" when he was passed out on the ground after the accident.

Now I'm not condoning or condemning Tiger for his infidelity. This has nothing to do with that. But I do know a bit about Ambien and I'm thinking there's a very good possibility that he was sound asleep when he got in his car and left the house. If so, he shouldn't have been given a ticket for reckless driving, because he wasn't responsible for what he was doing at the time.

My niece was given Ambien for sleeping problems. Soon she was calling her married daughter up in the middle of the night, telling her to get her kids to a safe place because a tornado was coming. The tornado was only in her dreams. She was calling both of her daughters every night, and they were getting really frustrated with her. She had no memory of any of it.

One morning she woke up to find that a picture she had painted the day before had been defaced. Someone had painted a blacktop road right through the middle of her picture, and painted a black house on top of the cabin in the picture. She was blaming her husband for ruining her picture till he pointed out that she was the one with black paint on her hands. She was sending text messages in her sleep, and doing other equally strange things. Her doctor told her to give her car keys to her husband before she went to bed at night, for fear she'd get in her car and drive. I can't imagine why he didn't just take her off Ambien. She finally quit taking it at the insistence of her family.

I read another account of a woman who got up in the middle of the night, cooked a four-course meal, and set the table for company. She had no memory of it the next morning.

Another woman got in her hot tub, fully dressed, and closed the cover on the hot tub. Her husband fought her for hours, trying to keep her from drowning herself. Finally she just took herself off to bed and slept soundly the rest of the night. She later said she couldn't remember anything about it. Her husband said he couldn't forget it.

There are many stories of people doing unbelievable things while under the influence of Ambien, even without opiate pain killers. That should be enough to explain Tiger's accident. Now if he could just convince his wife he was on Ambien when he was fooling around with the other women, he'd have it made.