Woman accused of assaulting boyfriend with car

A Macon woman accused of seriously injuring her boyfriend with a car last month was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with aggravated assault.

Crystal Baker Forsyth, 40, was crawling out of the sun roof and her boyfriend, Christopher Cloud, was pinned under the driver’s side door of a white Ford Escape when Bibb County sheriff’s deputies arrived just after 4 a.m. on May 22, according to an incident report from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.

It happened in north Macon on Ayers Road close to Covenant Academy.

Macon-Bibb firefighters were called to help remove Cloud, who was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. Cloud’s age was not listed in the report.

As her boyfriend was being lifted from the ditch by Macon-Bibb County firefighters, Forsyth told a sheriff’s deputy that the two lived together about a half-mile away in a house on Bernice Avenue, the report said. She told the deputy they had gotten into an argument before the car overturned, according to the report. Then, Cloud got out of the car and began walking, she said.

Forsyth told the deputy she put the car in reverse to go back and talk to Cloud, but instead of pressing the brakes, she “accidentally pressed the accelerator,” causing the car to catch the side of the roadway and roll into a ditch, the report said. Forsyth told officials that Cloud got pinned under the vehicle while trying to keep it from rolling.

Forsyth was booked in the Bibb County jail just before 10 a.m. Wednesday, records show. The arrest warrant for Forsyth says she “used her vehicle as a deadly weapon.”

It was unclear Wednesday evening if or when bond would be set for Forsyth.

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This story was originally published June 8, 2016 at 6:32 PM with the headline "Woman accused of assaulting boyfriend with car."