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Audubon woman, out on bail for hit-run, charged with DWI

An Audubon woman out on bail after critically injuring a 20-year-old in a hit-and-run accident last month in Gloucester City was charged with driving while intoxicated in Woodbury over the weekend, according to authorities.

An Audubon woman out on bail after critically injuring a 20-year-old in a hit-and-run accident last month in Gloucester City was charged with driving while intoxicated in Woodbury over the weekend, according to authorities.

Deborah Cirulli, 42, faces additional motor-vehicle charges in the Woodbury incident, including refusal to take a breath test and failure to have her insurance card, license, and registration when she was arrested at 11:59 p.m. Saturday, Woodbury Capt. Timothy Sheehan said Thursday.

A Woodbury officer pulled Cirulli over for driving a 2009 Nissan without headlights on South Evergreen Avenue, Sheehan said. The officer smelled alcohol.

Cirulli previously admitted driving a Chevrolet Uplander minivan March 11 in Gloucester City that hit Angela Gattuso around 1 a.m. on South Broadway. Gattuso was standing next to her disabled SUV while her father, an auto-body repair man, loaded the vehicle onto his tow truck.

The impact threw Gattuso about 75 feet, breaking the grill on the minivan.

But Cirulli, who state officials said had a clean driving record at the time, did not stop. At some point, she drove to Delaware, where she has family, authorities said.

On March 13, she surrendered to police after seeing news coverage of the hit-and-run, authorities said. The next day, her minivan was found in a McDonald's parking lot in Wilmington.

Gattuso, who lives in the Clarksboro section of East Greenwich Township, suffered severe head trauma and multiple fractures. She has been moved from Cooper University Hospital in Camden to a rehabilitation facility in Pennsylvania, her father said.

A graduate of Gloucester Catholic High School, Gattuso attended Gloucester County College and planned to become an art teacher.

In the hit-and-run, Cirulli was charged with leaving the scene of a serious motor-vehicle crash, aggravated assault with an auto, and hindering apprehension. She was released on $60,000 bail.

William Rozanski III, a Woodbury lawyer who represents Cirulli in the Gloucester City accident and the latest charges, declined to comment Thursday.

On Sunday, Cirulli was released to a relative after her arrest in Woodbury, pending a court date this month.