Boxing star Errol Spence Jr has been charged with driving while intoxicated after his high-speed car crash.
The American world welterweight champion lost control of his Ferrari while travelling in Dallas in the early hours of last Thursday.
The car flipped multiple times and was left a complete wreck but, despite not wearing a seatbelt, the 29-year-old miraculously avoided serious injury.
On Thursday, Spence posted his first words since the dramatic crash in an Instagram story, commenting: “No broken bones, I’m a savage!!”
But he quickly removed the post after he was charged by Dallas police.
“Mr Spence has been released from the hospital and will need to address those charges,” a Dallas police spokesperson said in a statement to The Guardian on Wednesday.
“As for getting a speed of the vehicle, we will not be getting one. It was a single car accident with no other criminal charges.”
Spence is rated as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters on the planet.
The car crash came just weeks after he had claimed the biggest win of his career by defeating Shawn Porter in a WBC and IBF welterweight title unification fight.
Spence has won all 26 of his professional fights, 21 by knockout, with Britain’s Kell Brook among those he has beaten in his career.
