Fox News halted for a breaking update after it emerged that Tiger Woods had been arrested and later charged for DUI after a rollover crash on March 27. The news was shared on Friday prompting the hosts to discuss his recent arrest as the focus of the segment turned to the golfer. Host Greg Gutfeld said on air: “It’s incredibly selfish behaviour whenever there’s a DUI.” He stated that Woods was driving to get somewhere even when “impaired”.
The host then continued: “He’s really lucky there was no-one there and that nobody died in a residential area. I’m having flashbacks of 2021 when we sat here for an hour talking about ‘I hope he’s alright’, screw him! What about people he could have hurt?” Woods has since been released on bail following his arrest.
He rolled his Land Rover after clipping a truck on Friday afternoon, according to Sheriff John Budensiek, who said officers had not suspected him of impairment by alcohol, but possibly by an unknown substance.
The golfer had to crawl out of a passenger door, but did pass a breathalyser test after the crash, though he refused a urine test. No one was injured in the incident. Woods was kept in jail for eight hours, the minimum allowed under state law, before he was released on bail.
It was claimed that he had tried to overtake a pressure cleaner truck at a “high rate of speed”. DUI investigators then attended the scene and Budensiek said he did “Exemplify signs of impairment”, with several tests then being performed.
The sheriff added: “He did explain the injuries and surgeries that he’s had and we did take that into account, but they did some in-depth roadside tests.”
Investigators at the scene were “really not suspicious of alcohol being involved” and it was stated that he passed a breathalyser test with “triple zeros”. However, they did note that he was co-operative but was trying not to incriminate himself.
Discussing the refusal of the urine test, the sheriff added: “He has a right to refuse that test. There is a statute which he will be charged with for refusing to take that test, but we will never get the definitive results as to what he was impaired on at the time of the crash.”
Donald Trump has since spoken out about the incident, stating: “I feel so badly. He has got some difficulty. There was an accident. That’s all I know. He’s a very close friend of mine. He’s an amazing person – an amazing man.”
