Tiger Woods' wife Elin Nordegren mum as she leaves Florida home; cops await talk with top golfer

Tiger Woods' wife emerged silently from their Florida mansion Saturday morning as police prepared to quiz her husband about his early-morning car crash.

Elin Nordegren, a former Swedish model, wore sunglasses and ignored the assembled media horde as she drove off with the family pets - and then returned home a short time later.

She and the world's No. 1 golfer might have visitors later in the day: The Florida Highway Patrol, which is investigating the 2:25 a.m. wreck that left a dazed and bloody Woods lying in the street.

A pair of troopers visited the house Friday night to speak with Woods, but they agreed to come back later when Nordegren said her injured husband was sleeping. The interview, in part, will determine whether charges are filed against Woods in the late-night crash.

Woods was bleeding from his mouth and semi-conscious when police arrived at his $2.4 million home in the wee hours after Thanksgiving.

The 33-year-old international superstar had smashed his 2009 Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and a neighbor's tree, police said.

Although police said Nordegren used a golf club to smash a window of the SUV and help free her husband from the wreck, other reports indicated she was chasing him with the club after an argument.

The National Enquirer and Star magazine both reported Woods had an affair with a New York nightclub hostess.

The woman denied the allegations.

Reporters and photographers were gathered Saturday outside the entrance to the exclusive, gated community of Isleworth - home to Woods, his wife of five years and their two kids.

Nordegren looked straight ahead as she drove another Cadillac SUV out the front gate with the family dogs inside the vehicle with her.

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