Colquitt Regional paramedics talk to a woman in a white Oldsmobile on Central Avenue at Main Street Tuesday morning. Police had chased the car at slow speeds from Wal-Mart and blocked it in at this intersection. The woman was taken by ambulance to Colquitt Regional Medical Center.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Tuesday morning altercation at a Moultrie retailer resulted in what was described as a “slow-speed chase” before police were able to stop the car and get medical help for the driver.

The driver, who faces no charges and was not identified by police, was taken to Colquitt Regional Medical Center. Police said that she had some type of “medical issue” that accounted for her behavior.

The incident stalled traffic in downtown Moultrie as police spent some 30 minutes trying to convince the driver of a white Mercury to get out of the car. Police said that the driver was elderly.

“There was some kind of incident or altercation at Wal-Mart,” Moultrie Police Department Sgt. Vernon Nobles said.

Officers who responded to the incident, which possibly involved a store employee, at 641 Veterans Parkway S., were given a description of the car and police followed the car as the driver obeyed all traffic laws as she made her way toward downtown Moultrie.

“She wouldn’t stop,” however, Nobles said. “They finally got her stopped on the square when she stopped at a red light.”

At that point the car was still in drive. Police placed stop sticks in front of the car that would have flattened the tires had she driven forward. After officers and emergency medical personnel talked with the woman for a few minutes police opened the passenger side door, put the car in park and removed the keys.

At about 11:35 a.m. police and paramedics removed her from the car.

‘We had to get her from the car, get her on a stretcher and get her to the hospital,” Nobles said. “Everything worked out. She had some type of medical issue — we don’t know (what) — and she was transported to the hospital. We couldn’t have handled it any other way. Everybody came together and handled the issue.”