A verbal dispute nearly turned fatal Saturday night, when a Mt. Pleasant woman ran over her future mother-in-law and drove off.

Ashley Rae Anderson, 29 of Mt. Pleasant, was charged Monday with assault with intent to do great bodily harm, a 10-year/$5,000 felony, and failure to stop at the scene of an accident resulting in serious impairment or death, a five-year/$5,000 felony.

Mt. Pleasant police officers responded to a call of a hit-and-run accident that started as a verbal confrontation between Anderson and the mother of her fiance. Anderson yelled at the woman, according to the woman's son who was also in the car, and the woman got out.

The woman went to the driver's window and began to yell at Anderson, according to witness statements in the police affidavit. Anderson put her car in reverse and accelerated backward quickly, knocking the woman to the ground and running over her.

She then drove off to the north and was arrested a short time later without incident.

The woman was taken to the McLaren-Central Michigan emergency room, where doctors noted what looked like tire marks across her stomach. According to the police affidavit, the emergency room doctor said that she was lucky to have survived.

She was incapable of giving police a statement.

Anderson is scheduled for a preliminary exam Nov. 14. Preliminary exams determine whether enough evidence exists to bind the cause over for trial.


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