EXPLAINER: What are the 'jaws of life' that saved Tiger Woods after freak accident

Golfer Tiger Woods is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honour, by (Former) US President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., on May 6, 2019. [REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File Photo]

Golf megastar Tiger Woods sustained multiple injuries in a freak crash on Tuesday in Los Angeles, California.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said that paramedics used the 'Jaws of Life'  to extricate him from his SUV, the Genesis GV80.