Behind-the-wheel brawl between women in Coral Gables leads to crash into tree, arrest, cops say

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — A Miami woman is facing an aggravated battery charge after authorities said she caused a car crash while fighting with another woman as the two were driving in Coral Gables just after midnight on Thursday.

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Coral Gables police said Mariah Rose Scuiletti, 27, of Shorecrest, and the driver began arguing during the drive and “simultaneously began striking and grabbing each other in the neck and face area.”

According to police, the victim told police that as they drove in the 1900 block of Segovia Street, Scuiletti “struck her in the neck and began pulling her hair before (she) grabbed and pulled on the steering wheel, which caused the vehicle to swerve off the roadway and into a tree.”

Police said that medics took the victim to Baptist Health Doctors Hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

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According to an arrest report, Scuiletti told officers that she “attempted to step over the vehicle’s center console to press the brake” before the wreck.

The report states that officers believed that Scuiletti was under the influence of alcohol at the time.

As of Thursday afternoon, Scuiletti was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as “to be set” in online jail records.

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