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Upon further review…

By Ken Herman | Sunday, May 21, 2006, 09:41 AM

Turns out the “private citizen” injured while biking with President Bush on Saturday was Mike Wood, a Bush friend nominated earlier this month to be ambassador to Sweden.

And the “minor injury” announced Saturday by the White House turned out to be a broken collarbone, generally the kind of injury one might consider minor if it happened to somebody else.

On Saturday, White House spokesman Peter Watkins would say nothing more than that there had been a “minor injury to a private citizen who happened to be biking with the president” at a Secret Service facility in Beltsville, Maryland.

Today, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino identified Wood as the biker who went down, though no details were offered.

“It was a one-rider fall. It’s not uncommon for people to fall but that serious of an injury is not common,” Perino said. “He was brought back to the White House. He drove himself home and he later sought medical attention. … The president called him last night and he said he was doing fine.”

Wood, a Yalie like Bush, is chairman of Redwood Investments, a company he founded last year. Wood lives in Washington. He also was a founder of Hanley Wood, which identifies itself as a “business-to-business media network serving North America’s residential and commercial construction industries.”

The morning-after announcement concerning Wood’s injury is reminiscent of how Vice President Cheney’s office handled his accidental shooting of a hunting buddy earlier this year.

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