Olga Hepnarova: She Didn't Stop

Olga Hepnarova was an average child growing up in Czechoslovakia, but out of nowhere, she developed psychiatric problems that plagued her for the rest of her life. She had attempted suicide by age 13, and had survived frequent beatings and other abuse at the mental hospital she was staying at. As she grew up, her life didn’t improve much, as she bounced from job to job. Once she found work as a truck driver, she eventually cut off her family and isolated herself. After trying to unsuccessfully burn down her family farm, Olga quickly came up with another, more heinous way to get attention. On July 10, 1973 in Prague,Olga, in her newly rented Praga RN, spent about 30 minutes circling a tram stop, waiting for a good amount of people to gather up. Once about 25 people were there, she drove to the end of the block, turned around and gunned it, and she didn’t stop.