A late-night feud in Miami turned violent when, according to police, a Florida mother used her car to drag another woman down the street during a 3 a.m. confrontation. The accused driver, 43-year-old Crystal Collins, is now facing two counts of battery after detectives say her own cellphone video backed up the victim’s story.
The conflict dates back to September 13 on NW 37th Avenue, where a woman told police she was outside a residence with friends when Collins pulled up in a Nissan Altima. Inside the car, investigators say, was Collins’ daughter — the same person the victim had been arguing with earlier.
What happened next unfolded quickly. The victim told officers that Collins’ daughter leaned out of the passenger window, grabbed her shirt, and yelled to her mother, “Drag this h—.” According to the arrest affidavit, Collins hit the gas. With the daughter still clutching the woman’s shirt, the car accelerated and dragged her “several yards” until reaching a stop sign, where she finally broke free.
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Paramedics took the woman to a hospital, where she was treated for road rash. She also told police that this wasn’t the first time it had happened — claiming Collins and her daughter had dragged her with the car two days earlier in what she described as an “ongoing situation.”
When detectives located Collins on Wednesday, she agreed to talk. She claimed the woman had approached her at a wake and tried to start a fight with her daughter. Collins said the woman punched her daughter through the window, prompting her daughter to kick the woman. Collins admitted she reversed her car but insisted she wasn’t dragging anyone.
Then she handed over her own cellphone videos.
According to the affidavit, the footage Collins voluntarily gave police matched the victim’s version of events — not her own. Detectives concluded the videos supported the woman’s claim that she had been pulled and dragged alongside the car.
Collins was arrested and booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center before being released on pretrial release. A judge ordered her to stay away from the woman she allegedly dragged.
Court records show her next hearing is scheduled for January 20, 2026.
