New particulars have emerged relating to Tiger Woods’ disposition when he was arrested and charged with driving beneath the affect following a automotive crash final Friday.
Gabby Herzig and Brody Miller of The Athletic obtained the details from an arrest affidavit launched Tuesday. Woods instructed native police that he appeared down at his cellular phone and was altering the radio station in his automobile 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 suitable … I requested Woods if he was capable of carry out duties similar to strolling and lifting his leg, Woods suggested he has a limp and his ankle seizes whereas strolling.”
Woods’ eyes had been bloodshot, and he needed to be repeatedly reminded of directions whereas present process area sobriety workouts. When he was arrested, two capsules had been present in his pants pocket, later recognized as hydrocodone, identified 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 studies said that Woods did not appear to have alcohol in his system, however refused to undergo a urinalysis take a look at earlier than finally being arrested.
Woods, 50, was charged with property harm and refusal to submit, along with the DUI cost. His first courtroom date is scheduled for April 23.
