April 28, 2008
FORSYTH COUNTY -- Forsyth County Sheriff's deputies and Alpharetta police arrested a 27-year-old woman on a number of charges April 18 after she took off in her car and crashed it on Ga. 400 instead of just waiting for a taxi to come pick her up.
According to the incident report, deputies initially pulled over Viktoriya Ovsyannykova of Alpharetta on Ga. 400 near the McFarland overpass after officers spotted sparks shooting from her rear tire. The tire had evidently gone flat and she was just driving on the rim.
When questioned, she began crying and saying she had just gotten into a fight with her boyfriend. At the time she said he wanted to kill her, but later recanted the statement.
During her interview -- which was conducted in handcuffs after Ovsyannykova kept lighting cigarettes even when told not to -- officers noted the suspect kept changing her mood.
She would say one time, "I just don't want to be alive," then she would laugh for no reason. Investigators noted she had a slight smell of alcohol about her.
Trying to help out the apparently troubled woman, deputies used her cell phone to call a friend, who sent for a taxi. While waiting for the taxi, however, Ovsyannykova kept trying to wander into traffic, so deputies sat her down in her car without handcuffs.
About 15 minutes later -- while a deputy was calling the taxi service to make sure it was near -- she put the car in gear and took off, allegedly reaching speeds of 100 mph.
Without a rear tire she lost control of the car.
Ovsyannykova drove into the center division wall, across four lanes of traffic and careened into a guardrail near the Mansell Road exit in Alpharetta. The unharmed Ovsyannykova was charged by Forsyth deputies with DUI, fleeing and attempting to elude, obstruction failure to maintain lane, operating an unsafe vehicle and reckless driving.
Alpharetta police charged her with DUI, fleeing and attempting to elude and tire requirements. | 
