What started as a routine traffic stop on Saturday turned out to be a life-saving moment for one Michigan woman.

At the time the unidentified driver was pulled over, she was choking. And the officer who stopped her saved her life in a scene caught on his dashcam, which you can see above.

"For the first second or so I thought she might be trying to just get out of a ticket and then I realized she was in legitimate respiratory distress, so I tried to dislodge the item from her throat by just hitting her on the back," Officer Jason Gates said at a press conference, according to MLive.com.

"When that didn't work, I got her out and I used the Heimlich for the first time in my nine-year police career and it worked," he said.

With three hard abdominal thrusts, Gates dislodged a piece of sausage and bun, WOODTV reported.

When she could breathe again, the grateful driver cried and hugged the officer. He did not give her a ticket.