Tiger Woods was arrested on a DUI charge after his SUV rolled over Friday afternoon on Jupiter Island, Florida, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said.
Authorities say Woods, 50, was speeding when his Land Rover clipped a pickup truck, struck a maintenance vehicle and rolled on a residential street. Stills released by police showed the black SUV on its side. Woods crawled out through the passenger door, officers said.
Police reported that Woods “exemplified signs of impairment” and performed several field tests. He submitted to a breathalyzer, which the department said showed no alcohol, but he refused a urine test. Woods was arrested and taken into custody; officials said he would be held in the Martin County Jail for at least eight hours. Neither Woods nor the other driver was reported injured.
The sheriff’s office noted that the crash could have been much worse had another vehicle been traveling in the opposite direction, and authorities emphasized the danger of the high speed at which investigators say Woods was driving.
The arrest is the second DUI-related incident for Woods. In 2017 he was arrested in Jupiter after being found asleep in his vehicle; officers at that time reported that he had difficulty staying awake and displayed impairment. It is also his second rollover crash, following a serious single-vehicle rollover on a California highway in 2021 that resulted in severe leg injuries.
Woods, who recently competed in an indoor golf league and had been weighing a return to the Masters, was alone in the car at the time of Friday’s crash. Representatives for Woods had not immediately responded to requests for comment, the sheriff’s office said.
