A Waikato driver is lucky to be alive after police responded to complaints of erratic driving- which was because she was having a medical emergency.
Police were alerted by two members of the public on June 29 to a vehicle "all over the road failing to maintain its lane" in Cambridge.
"The officer stopped the vehicle at Riverlea and immediately noticed that the driver was having a medical emergency," a police spokesperson said.
"The Constable called for an ambulance which transported the driver to Waikato Hospital. She was rushed straight to theatre for emergency surgery and spent the next two days in intensive care."
Doctors told the officer there had been an eight-minute window to get the driver into an operating theatre otherwise she was so gravely ill she would have died.
"The driver recalls looking in her rearview mirror and seeing the patrol lights coming down the hill behind her and knowing that they were for her and thinking to herself 'they are coming to save me, I'm going to be ok'.
"If it wasn't for those two members of the public phoning in the driving complaint there is a good chance that the driver would not be with us today."
The police said the story reiterates the importance of contacting the police and the officer later called the informants to thank them for saving the woman's life.
