‘Saved her life.’ Traffic stop leads to SC driver’s critical diagnosis, cops say

A driver kept swerving and hitting the curb — and it led to a life-saving diagnosis in South Carolina, officials said.

Tamara Palmer was behind the wheel when officers pulled her over in December. She kept saying she had a headache, leading police to think she was experiencing a medical emergency, according to the Mount Pleasant Police Department.

Palmer was taken to a hospital, where she discovered she had a brain tumor, she told police more than two months after the traffic stop.

“She stated that she immediately underwent an 8 hour procedure and is doing great,” officers wrote Feb. 28 in a Facebook post. “Ms. Palmer feels that these officers absolutely saved her life.”

The case dates to Dec. 2, when police were called to U.S. Highway 17 North in Mount Pleasant, just outside of Charleston. An officer “located the vehicle and initiated a traffic stop due to the vehicle striking the curb multiple times and failing to maintain its lane,” police said.

During the stop, Palmer reportedly showed no signs of impairment from drugs or alcohol. With that ruled out, police are credited with determining something else was wrong.

“Without their quick analysis of the situation, the outcome could have ended differently,” officials wrote in the post, which had garnered more than 600 reactions as of March 1.

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