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Tiger Woods’ apprehension connected Friday (March 27, 2026) for a car clang successful Florida was astatine slightest the 4th auto-related incidental involving the golfer and the 2nd successful which helium was charged with driving nether the power of drugs oregon alcohol.
Woods showed signs of impairment and was arrested astatine the country of the clang successful which helium struck different conveyance and rolled his Land Rover not acold from his location connected Jupiter Island, authorities said. He did a Breathalyser test, which came retired negative, but refused to instrumentality a urine test. Neither Woods nor the idiosyncratic successful the different conveyance were injured, Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said.
Woods was charged connected Friday (March 27) with driving nether the power with spot harm and refusal to taxable to a lawful test, some misdemeanours.
Here’s a look astatine his different crashes implicit the past mates decades.
The archetypal DUI charge
Woods was charged with driving nether the power successful 2017 erstwhile southbound Florida constabulary recovered him dormant down the instrumentality of his car with the motor running. It was parked successful a postulation lane and had harm to the driver’s side.
Woods said helium had taken a premix of medicine painkillers and had a atrocious reaction.
He pleaded blameworthy to reckless driving successful 2017 and agreed to implicit a first-time DUI offender programme to enactment retired of jail. He received a twelvemonth of probation, a tiny good and assemblage service.
California clang astir costs Woods his leg
In February 2021, Woods survived a rollover clang successful which his SUV ran disconnected a coastal roadworthy successful Los Angeles County astatine a precocious speed, starring to aggregate limb and ankle injuries.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Woods was driving betwixt 84 and 87 miles per hr (135 to 140 kilometers per hour) connected a winding roadworthy with a velocity bounds of 45 miles per hr (72 kilometers per hour) erstwhile helium crashed. No charges were filed.
Doctors said Woods shattered the tibia and fibula bones of his little close limb successful aggregate locations. Those injuries were stabilised with a rod successful the tibia. Additional injuries to the bones successful the ft and ankle required screws and pins.
Woods spent 3 months immobilised — a makeshift infirmary furniture was acceptable up successful his Florida location — earlier helium could commencement moving astir connected crutches and yet locomotion connected his own. He said the thought of amputating his close limb “was connected the table.” He did not play connected the PGA Tour that twelvemonth but returned to the Masters successful 2022.
Fire hydrant collision
Woods ran retired of his location successful Orlando, Florida, connected November 27, 2009, and drove his Cadillac Escalade into a occurrence hydrant and a histrion successful his neighbour’s gait astir 2:30 a.m., authorities said.
That came 2 days aft the National Enquirer published a communicative alleging Woods had been seeing a New York nightclub hostess, and that they precocious were unneurotic successful Melbourne. The Windermere constabulary main astatine the clip said officers recovered Woods lying successful the thoroughfare with his then-wife, Elin Nordegren, hovering implicit him.
The main said Nordegren told officers she was successful the location erstwhile she heard the clang and “came retired and broke the backmost model with a play club.” Woods had lacerations to his precocious and little lips, and humor successful his mouth.
