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Tiger Woods Pleads Guilty to Reckless Driving and Loses License for Five Years

Prosecutors reduced DUI-related counts to a reckless-driving plea that resolves the March crash case and imposes a strict no-driving order enforced by the court.

Overview

  • Woods, who pleaded guilty Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026, accepted a negotiated plea to intentional reckless driving that closes the criminal case from his March crash near his Martin County, Florida, home.
  • Under the agreement the court suspended his driver’s license for five years and ordered about $1,500 in fines, with the judge warning that any driving during the suspension would trigger immediate jail.
  • Police records show the March 27 crash occurred when Woods’s Land Rover crossed a double line, struck a trailer on another vehicle and rolled onto its side while he was uninjured.
  • Authorities reported field-sobriety errors at the scene, a jail breath test showing no alcohol, Woods’s refusal to provide a urine sample, and two hydrocodone pills found in his pocket, facts that shaped the reduced charges.
  • The resolution comes as Woods has stepped away to seek treatment and follows earlier driving incidents in 2017 and 2021 that inform public and legal scrutiny of his repeated traffic cases.