Tiger Woods was “sweating profusely,” his eyes have been bloodshot and his pupils have been “extraordinarily dilated” following a automobile collision in Florida Friday that led his car to roll over on its aspect, in response to a newly launched arrest report. The golf legend was charged with driving underneath the affect within the aftermath of the crash.
Woods, 50, was taken into custody at round 2 p.m. Friday, when his Land Rover was concerned within the crash within the city of Jupiter, authorities mentioned. The sheriff’s deputies who responded to the scene made notice of the truth that the athlete gave the impression to be impaired whereas responding to questions and making an attempt to finish a sequence of sobriety exams.
One noticed that whereas Woods spoke to a different responding officer, his “motion was torpid and sluggish,” although he appeared alert throughout the investigation. Woods wore sun shades at first, and when requested to take away them, revealed that his eyes have been “bloodshot and glassy,” in response to the arrest affidavit.
The deputy recalled Woods saying that he had not consumed alcohol that day however had taken “just a few” prescription drugs. Two tablets, later decided to be the painkiller hydrocodone, have been discovered within the pocket of Woods’ pants, the report mentioned. Particulars about his regular prescription routine have been shared with officers however redacted from the affidavit.
Woods agreed to endure a sequence of area sobriety workouts, not all of which he accomplished appropriately, the report mentioned. Throughout one the place he was instructed to comply with the transferring tip of a pen together with his eyes, officers mentioned Woods was unable to maintain his head nonetheless “and needed to be instructed a number of occasions” to maintain it straight.
Throughout one other that was designed to guage his coordination, Woods didn’t appropriately comply with the entire instructions given to him, in response to the affidavit. The workouts concerned variations of counting, taking steps and transferring his fists in several patterns laid out by the officers.
“Based mostly on my observations of Woods, how he carried out the workouts and based mostly on my coaching, data, and expertise, I believed that [Woods’] regular schools have been impaired, and he was unable to securely function the motorized vehicle,” wrote one of many responding deputies within the arrest report.
In line with the affidavit, Woods was taken into custody and transported to the Martin County Jail with out incident. He agreed to an alcohol breath take a look at, which didn’t sign the presence of alcohol in his system. However Woods refused to submit a urine take a look at, which might have been used to detect substances apart from alcohol in his physique. He faces an extra cost for refusing the urine take a look at.
The report mentioned Woods had been driving behind a pickup truck that was towing a trailer together with it, and out of the blue swerved into the center of the street as soon as the truck started slowing down to show right into a driveway.
Nobody was injured within the collision. The trailer sustained an estimated $5,000 price of damages.
The truck driver advised a Martin County sheriff’s deputy that he and one other particular person helped Woods exit his SUV. As a result of the driving force’s aspect door confronted the bottom after the automobile flipped over, Woods needed to climb out of the passenger’s aspect as a substitute, in response to the affidavit.
