New particulars have emerged concerning Tiger Woods’ disposition when he was arrested and charged with driving below the affect following a automobile crash final Friday.
Gabby Herzig and Brody Miller of The Athletic obtained the details from an arrest affidavit launched Tuesday. Woods advised native police that he seemed down at his mobile phone and was altering the radio station in his car on the time of the crash. Nonetheless, officers noticed Woods “sweating profusely” regardless of having cool air flowing on him, and that woods demonstrated “a number of indicators of impairment.”
“Woods’ motion was torpid and sluggish,” the report said. “Whereas strolling, I noticed Woods limping and stumbling to the appropriate … I requested Woods if he was capable of carry out duties akin to strolling and lifting his leg, Woods suggested he has a limp and his ankle seizes whereas strolling.”
Woods’ eyes have been bloodshot, and he needed to be repeatedly reminded of directions whereas present process discipline sobriety workout routines. When he was arrested, two tablets have been present in his pants pocket, later recognized as hydrocodone, recognized finest to the general public as Vicodin.
That is Woods’ second DUI arrest, and hydrocodone was one of many medicine present in his system in the course of the first incident as nicely. Earlier experiences said that Woods did not appear to have alcohol in his system, however refused to undergo a urinalysis check earlier than finally being arrested.
Woods, 50, was charged with property injury and refusal to submit, along with the DUI cost. His first court docket date is scheduled for April 23.
