Nov 9, 2009 10:34 am US/Eastern
Lawrence Taylor Accused Of Leaving Accident Scene
HIALEAH, Fla. (CBS) ―
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Former New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident on Sunday.
Miami-Dade Corrections/CBS
NFL Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor couldn't dance his way out of a ticket over the weekend after he reportedly left the scene of an accident in Hialeah, reports CBS station WFOR-TV.
Taylor, who played for the New York Giants and appeared on the eighth season of TV's "Dancing with the Stars," was involved in an accident Sunday around 6:35 p.m. while heading north on the Palmetto Expressway around the 103rd Street exit, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers responding to reports of the accident issued an alert to be on the lookout for a "white vehicle missing the right front tire." A short time later, Taylor was spotted at the next exit down by Hialeah police; he was reportedly standing outside his car talking on the phone.
Taylor, 50, allegedly admitted to police he had been in an accident but told the officers he thought he had only hit a guard rail. Taylor was arrested and booked into the county's jail before 10 a.m. He was released a short time later on $500 bond.
Taylor, a linebacker with the Giants from 1981 to 1993, is considered to be one of the greatest defensive players in the history of the game. He days on and off the field were sometimes checkered with drug use. In 1987, he admitted to and tested positive for cocaine use. He was suspended from football for 30 days the following year after failing a second drug test.
He was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame in 1999.
After retiring from the NFL, Taylor was hired as a color commentator for the short lived
Toughman show on the Fox network, football analyst for
TNT's Sunday Night Football and even appeared for a short time in the
WWF. He also turned his attention to acting, appearing in such films as
Any Given Sunday,
The Sopranos,
The Waterboy and the 2000 remake of
Shaft.
(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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