WINDERMERE, Fla. - Tiger Woods and his wife were not available to speak to state troopers for the second straight day, asking that they return today to try to clear up questions about how he crashed his SUV into a neighbor’s tree early Friday morning.

The Florida Highway Patrol said the announcement that Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, could not speak to authorities came from his agent.

Mark Steinberg of IMG, which represents Woods, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Troopers tried to talk to Woods Friday afternoon, but his wife told them Woods was sleeping, and they agreed to return the next day.

Woods smashed his Cadillac near his $2.4 million mansion at 2:25 a.m. Friday and was briefly hospitalized, police said. His lips were cut, and Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor has said Woods’s wife used a golf club to smash out a back window and help Woods from the car.

Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Montes said Woods’s agent contacted dispatch and the call was put through to the troopers, who were on their way to Woods’s house.

“I don’t know what was said,’’ Montes said.

Montes said it was “kind of normal’’ for Woods not to speak on Friday, the day he was treated and released from a hospital.

“It is unusual that we haven’t gotten a statement,’’ she said. “This just delays us to getting closer to the completion of the investigation.’’

Montes said Woods is not required to talk to troopers in a traffic accident; they only need his driver’s license, insurance, and registration. She said troopers inside the gates at Isleworth are “looking at other things for their investigation.’’

She said Woods’s Cadillac Escalade was not impounded, but was taken to a tow yard. She said the front and right of the SUV was damaged, and both rear passenger windows were busted out.

“We still are going to move forward with our crash investigation,’’ Montes said.