Golf legend Tiger Woods is ARRESTED and charged with DUI after rollover car crash in Florida that forced him to crawl out of passenger-side door
Tiger Woods is behind bars in Florida after being arrested and charged with DUI, property damage and refusing to provide a urine sample in the wake of a rollover car crash near his home on Jupiter Island.
The golf legend is unhurt and was able to crawl out of the passenger side door after his Range Rover SUV flipped onto its side after clipping the rear end of a pressure-washing vehicle shortly after 2pm on Friday afternoon.
At a press conference, the Martin County Sheriff's Office revealed that Woods showed signs of impairment at the scene and was arrested after refusing a urine test.
Woods was alone in his car, and neither he nor the driver of the other vehicle were injured. He will remain behind bars for at least eight hours, according to the police department.
The crash occurred in a 30mph zone when Woods - who was traveling at 'high speed' - attempted to overtake a truck that was pulling a pressure-washing device, according to the cops.
As the vehicle slowed to turn into a driveway, Woods attempted to overtake on the two-lane residential street but clipped the rear of the trailer, flipping his Range Rover onto its side before coming to a stop.
After clambering out, a 'lethargic' Woods agreed to take a breathalyzer at the scene - with the Sheriff's Office confirming that he showed 'triple zeros' - but he then refused to provide a urine sample.
Speaking to the media, Sheriff John Budensiek revealed: 'He is cooperative, but he was not trying to incriminate himself, so he was careful in what he said and didn't say. When it came time again for the test, the urine test at the jail, he stopped that.
'On scene, we had [Drug Recognition] experts evaluating him and they believed from on scene that he was not impaired with alcohol, but they believe it was some type of medication or drug. And again, at the jail he cooperated with the breathalyzer, and then the urine [test] he wanted no part in.
'He has a right to refuse that test. There is a statute that he will be charged with for refusing to take that test, but we will never get definitive results as to what he was impaired on at the time of the crash.'
Woods, who lives on Jupiter Island around two miles from where the incident occurred, was involved in a similar crash in 2021 in California, which shattered his right leg after he was trapped under the vehicle. He needed multiple surgeries in order to recover from his injuries.
The accident, the third crash he has been involved in, comes just days after Woods made his hugely anticipated return to golf at an event on Tuesday night, where girlfriend Vanessa Trump was watching him play.
The police confirmed that Woods is being kept away from the general population in jail, where he will remain until at least 11pm EST on Friday night.
'We know we arrested a high-profile figure, I'm not trying to dramatize it,' Sheriff Budensiek told reporters. 'But it doesn't matter who you are, if you break the law we're gonna follow the law. That's a really easy path to take.
'Now as far as being in the jail, we're gonna make sure he's safe. We're not gonna put him in general population, he's not gonna be with other inmates that can try and hurt him or try to capitalize on what he did.
'He'll pay the price, but he's not gonna pay the price by getting punished in jail. He was not injured. He was lethargic on scene, but we believe that was because of what he was intoxicated on.'
Woods had been weighing up whether to compete in The Masters at Augusta National, Georgia in April after undergoing a seventh back surgery last October. He said this week that, despite returning to golf, he has days where he struggles to move.
'Sometimes I have good days, sometimes I have bad days,' he said this week of his overall health.
'Disc replacement is not a lot of fun. I've had a lot of procedures prior to that, so the body doesn't quite heal like it was when I was 24. Doesn't quite bounce back. So I have good days when I can pretty much do anything, and other days where it's hard to just to move around.'
As well as Woods' ongoing back issues, he also tore his Achilles last March. He last played a tournament in July 2024 at The Open Championship in Scotland. …
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