A woman who was stopped after nearly running over two people in her car said she couldn't concentrate because she was head over heels in love with an elusive police officer.

A woman driver who almost ran over a pedestrian, narrowly avoided hitting a cyclist and then unwittingly drove onto a footpath told police it was all because of love. She said she couldn't concentrate because she was besotted with a mystery policeman she had been trying to locate ever since laying eyes on him weeks before.