Tiger Woods arrested and charged with driving under influence after Florida car crash

MIAMI: Golf superstar Tiger Woods was arrested and charged with driving under the influence after being involved in a rollover car crash in Florida on Friday (Mar 27), law enforcement officials said.

Woods was uninjured in this latest twist in a turbulent career. He was detained after the vehicle he was driving clipped a truck and flipped over while trying to overtake on a residential street near his home on Jupiter Island.

Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said the 50-year-old - who was arrested for driving under the influence in 2017 - showed signs of "impairment" but subsequently passed a breathalyser test for alcohol.

However, he was formally charged with driving under the influence after refusing to take a urine analysis test, Budensiek said.

"When it came time for us to ask for a urinalysis test, he refused, and so he's been charged with DUI, with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test in the crash," Budensiek said.

The sheriff said drug recognition experts who examined Woods at the scene believed Woods was impaired with "some kind of medication or drug".

However, under Florida law, Budensiek said, Woods was entitled to refuse a urine test.

"We will never get definitive results as to what he was impaired on at the time of the crash," Budensiek told reporters.

While neither Woods nor the driver of the other vehicle was injured, Budensiek said the incident "could have been a lot worse".

"This is a small two-lane road," he said. "Had somebody been moving in the opposite direction, we would not be having a conversation saying there were no injuries."

Asked to estimate how fast Woods had been driving in the moments before the crash, Budensiek replied: "The answer is I can't. But I can tell you this - it's a