BARRINGTON — A misdemeanor charge of vandalism and malicious injury to property was dismissed yesterday in District Court Providence against Amy Page Oberg, a longtime member of the School Committee.

The dismissal came at the request of the victim in the case, a Cranston man who accused Oberg of scratching the paint on the trunk of his Mercedes on July 3, apparently because she didn’t like the fact that he was driving with his high beams on.

Nancy Letendre, an assistant town solicitor, said Oberg had agreed to make restitution.

“Without his testimony and proof of damages, I determined that a dismissal was necessary,” Letendre said.

Oberg declined comment after the dismissal was approved by Judge Elaine Bucci.

According to Oberg’s arrest report, the police were called to Annawamscutt Road and Willow Way by the Cranston man, John P. O’Malley, who said he was driving very slowly down Annawamscutt with his high beams on.

One of the people walking in the street at the time was a woman who “was yelling and waving her arms and was telling him to turn off his high beams,” according to a police report describing O’Malley’s account.

When the woman was behind the Mercedes, the driver said, she used her hand to strike the rear fender and the top of the trunk.

The result, according to the police, was a handprint on the fender and paint scratched away from the top of the trunk.

He followed her to 42 Chapel, which is Oberg’s address. He told the police she appeared to be stumbling as if drunk, with another female helping her walk.

The police went to the house and found that Oberg matched the description offered by O’Malley.

“The suspect was intoxicated and had some trouble keeping her balance standing in the doorway while I was speaking with her,” according to the report by Patrolman Wesley G. McCoy Jr.

She was handcuffed, taken to police headquarters, fingerprinted, photographed and released after receiving a summons.

Oberg is a business lawyer at DarrowEverett LLP in Providence.

She was first elected to the School Committee in 1998 and was one of the members who supported tough penalties for all students involved in extracurricular activities who are caught using drugs or alcohol.

gemery@projo.com