Tiger Woods Tells Police He Was 'Talking to the President' Just After His Car Crash, Bodycam Footage Shows
New bodycam footage obtained by PEOPLE shows what happened in the moments after Woods crashed his SUV in Florida on Friday
NEED TO KNOW Tiger Woods told deputies that he was talking to "the president" in the moments after his crash in Jupiter Island, Fla. on Friday, March 27 Bodycam video shows the pro golfer on the phone and wrapping up a conversation before he tells a deputy who he was speaking with Woods was charged with DUI after the wreck and announced earlier this week he will step away to seek medical intervention Tiger Woods told authorities that he was talking to “the president” in the moments after he crashed his SUV in Florida on Friday, a new bodycam video shows. Bodycam video obtained by PEOPLE sees a deputy approaching the 50-year-old pro golfer near the two-lane road where he crashed and rolled over his Range Rover after clipping the back of a truck in Jupiter Island, Fla.
, and asking him to “hang out down here with us. ” Woods, who is on his cell phone, walks toward the officer and can be heard saying, “thank you so much, alright, you got it, thanks. ” As he nears the deputy, the officer reiterates that he just wants to keep Woods “near us.
" "Yeah, I was just talking to the president," Woods responds, holding up his phone in the air. “Trying to get away from everybody. ” Tiger Woods in bodycam footage from his arrest Credit: Martin County Sheriff's Office Woods was later arrested for DUI after deputies found two hydrocodone tablets in his pants pocket and “observed several signs of impairment,” including "bloodshot and glassy" eyes and "extremely dilated" pupils, they allege in a probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE on Tuesday.
It is unclear whether Woods was referring to being on the phone with Donald Trump in the aftermath of the accident, but the two are close friends who have publicly lauded one another in the past. “I feel so badly,” Trump said after landing in Miami to speak at an investment summit shortly after Woods’ accident last Friday, but before it was announced that he had been charged with DUI. “He’s got some difficulty.