Sweaty, glassy-eyed Tiger Woods blames cell phone use for his car crash

Celebrities—they're just like us! We recently covered a strange story out of Michigan last week, where a woman connected to a Zoom court hearing while driving her car down the road—and then tried to gaslight the judge about this fact. At the end of that piece, I noted just how often I see similar kinds of distracted driving, where people are (illegally in my state) one-handing cell phones even while navigating tricky intersections. Famous people aren't immune from this kind of behavior, either. Police in Martin County, Florida, today released their affidavit used to arrest golfer Tiger Woods after a car crash last week near his home. Woods was driving down a residential street, apparently at high speed, and managed to clip the trailer of another vehicle. He then swerved hard enough to flip his vehicle onto its side as it went skidding down the road. Woods had to be helped out through the front passenger-seat window of his SUV.Read full article Comments