HOBE SOUND — A man was arrested on an aggravated battery charge after he allegedly dragged his mother from his car, cursed her and left her bleeding on the side of the road.

Shortly before 6 p.m. on Monday, a Martin County Sheriff’s deputy found the 68-year-old woman by U.S. 1 and Seabranch Avenue, her arms bloody, according to a sheriff’s report.

The woman reported she was in the car with her 48-year-old son, Dennis A. Baum, when she told him he was too intoxicated to drive. The son got angry, slammed on the brakes, she said, and yanked her out of the vehicle.

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