Tiger Woods will appear in court for a change of plea hearing following his latest car crash earlier this year.<\/p>\n
The golf legend was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after he crashed his Land Rover in Florida in March. A police incident report said he was travelling at high speeds on a residential road when his vehicle clipped a truck during an attempted overtake and rolled on to its side.<\/p>\n
Woods had pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence in April, but the 50-year-old is set to appear in court on Wednesday for a change of plea hearing.<\/p>\n
It’s not known what he will change his plea to or if he has reached a plea deal with prosecutors.<\/p>\n
The police report said deputies found two hydrocone pills – used to treat pain – in his pocket, and he showed signs of impairment. It described Woods’ movements as slow and lethargic when speaking to deputies at the scene.<\/p>\n
The report also said Woods appeared to be sweating, his eyes looked glassy, and his pupils were dilated.<\/p>\n
Woods managed to crawl out of his car without any injuries and told a deputy he was looking down at his phone and changing the radio station when he hit the truck.<\/p>\n
When asked by a deputy if he took any prescription medications, Woods said: “I take a few.”<\/p>\n
The 15-time major winner also told deputies he had taken prescription drugs earlier that morning.<\/p>\n
He agreed to a breathalyser test that showed no signs of alcohol but refused a urine test, authorities said.<\/p>\n
After he pleaded not guilty, the 15-time major winner – who did not report any injuries after the crash – said he was “stepping away for a period of time to seek treatment”.<\/p>\n
He travelled outside of the US to an inpatient treatment facility, according to court records.<\/p>\n
The crash was his fourth since 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods will appear in court for a change of plea hearing following his latest car crash earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-880579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}