NATCHEZ — When Carolyn Brown pulled past a swerving driver on Palestine Road Thursday, she was trying to make it to an appointment on time.

But something made her turn around and go back.

Brown was making her way to an appointment when she turned on Palestine Road and saw a van swerving  back and forth on the road, sometimes leaving the road and getting back on it.

“It just really bothered me how he was swerving all over the road … I didn’t know what was wrong,” Brown said.

As it turns out, the driver of the vehicle was in need of help.

Brown said she pulled up by the vehicle three different times to try to get the driver to pull over.

“He nearly ran me off the road every time,” she said. “I kept hollering at him, but he never did look at me.”

Brown called her husband, Adams County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Jerry Brown, and told him she was concerned about the driver.

“I told him I didn’t know what to do, but that I knew something was wrong,”

Investigator Brown arrived on the scene, was able to stop the car, discovered the driver was having a stroke and called an ambulance.

Brown said the last she heard the driver was in intensive care at a local hospital. Brown said she has been thinking about the driver and wishes him a speedy recovery.

Brown said several cars pulled around the driver, but said she knew she needed to help.

“It bothered me so bad how he was running all over the road … he might have hurt someone or hurt himself,” she said.