Tiger Woods arrested, charged with DUI as awful | Golf News

Tiger Woods was arrested for DUI following a car crash in Florida close to his residence and now faces two misdemeanor prices.

The Martin County Sheriff’s Office disclosed that the famend golfer was working a vehicle at “high speeds” and tried to move another car before making contact and overturning. Dramatic initial particulars of the crash have surfaced, while the incident comes just days after he put on a romantic entrance with Vanessa Trump.

Woods was behind the wheel of an SUV that tried to move a strain cleaner truck towing a small trailer as it decelerated to enter a driveway. The truck driver glanced in his mirror and noticed Woods’ vehicle touring at “high speeds” before it swerved to keep away from affect and rolled onto the motive force’s facet.

Sheriff John Budensiek acknowledged: “Mr Woods did exhibit signs of impairment … He was placed under arrest and taken to the county jail”. He famous that breath analysis outcomes registered 0.00%, but the Sheriff indicated Woods refused urinalysis and has consequently been charged with DUI.

Authorities confirmed Woods was the only real occupant of the vehicle during the incident and exited through the passenger door before law enforcement reached the scene.

“Our DUI investigators came to the scene here, and Mr. Woods did exemplify signs of impairment,” Sheriff Budensiek said. “They did several tests on him. Of course, he did explain the injuries and the surgeries that he had.

“We did take that into account. But they did do some in-depth roadside exams. And when it was decided, he was positioned under arrest and taken to the Martin County Jail. At the Martin County Jail, and even on scene, we actually weren’t suspicious of alcohol being concerned in this case. And that proved to be true at the jail.

“So Mr. Woods did a breathalyzer test, blew triple zeros. But when it came time for us to ask for a urinalysis test, he refused. And so he’s been charged with DUI, with property damage, and refusal to submit to a lawful test.

“In the crash, no one was injured. Mr. Woods didn’t appear to be injured at all. The other gents weren’t injured.”

He later confirmed that there will be no further tests on Woods, and neither charge is a felony charge. Woods was described as “cooperative, but he was not making an attempt to incriminate himself”.

“He has a proper to refuse that take a look at,” the Sheriff explained. “There is a court of statute which he will probably be charged with for refusing to take that take a look at, but we are going to never get definitive outcomes as to what he was impaired on at the time of the crash.”

Explaining what happened in the crash, he added: “The truck pulling a trailer was making an attempt to slow down and pull over, and Mr. Woods was overtaking him at a high price of pace before he hooked the back end and rolled his vehicle over on the motive force’s door.

“So the question is, how many times did he roll over? The answer is, he didn’t roll completely over. The truck rolled to the driver’s door and then just slid northbound up the road.

“And again, we’ll present you some photographs of that. So the query is, can I provide you with a normal concept of how fast?

“And the answer is, I can’t. But I can tell you this, it’s a 30-mile-an-hour speed limit. And when I show you the photos, they kind of speak for themselves.

“You can see where he clipped the back of the trailer. You can see where he rolled. And then as he decelerates, sliding down on the motive force’s door of the vehicle, you possibly can see that he slid for a fairly respectable space before he got here to a stop.”