Tiger Woods is expected to miss the hearing scheduled for Tuesday, in Florida, related to the car accident that occurred on March 27, on Jupiter Island, Florida.
According to the police, the world golf legend was driving under the effect of opioid medications. After odos described Woods as being “disoriented”, with “slow movements, bloodshot eyes and dilated pupils”.
In Woods’ pocket were found hydrocodone tabletsa substance that had already been identified in a similar episode in 2017.
Tiger claimed that the medications had a doctor’s prescription e explained the difficulties in field sobriety tests with medical history: seven back surgeries and more than twenty operations on his right leg, seriously injured in an accident in 2021, near Los Angeles.
The athlete also stated that the accident happened when he was trying to adjust the volume of the radio and was using his cell phoneending up not noticing the slowdown of the truck ahead. The overtaking would have been done on a road with a continuous double line.
Although the hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, Woods as he is hospitalized in Switzerland in a rehabilitation program expected to last 90 days.
