WARWICK — A City Council member was transported to Rhode Island Hospital for observation Friday after he apparently fainted behind the wheel of his car and drove through the lobby doors of the Motel 6 on Jefferson Boulevard, police say.

Richard Corley, 63, who is also a lawyer, told police he was at Motel 6 to meet someone. When that person didn’t arrive, “he started to feel sick and decided to leave,” said a police report.

As he started to drive his Subaru Legacy away, “he began feeling faint and dizzy and passed out at the wheel.”

A motel employee told police he was in the lobby when the car came through the door. The worker saw the driver passed out with his foot still pressing on the gas. The worker reached in and turned off the car.

Corley was alert and conscious by the time police arrived and told officers he had not drank any alcohol or taken any medication that day, the police said.

A police officer said he did not observe or suspect any alcohol on Corley’s breath as he spoke, nor did he see anything in the immediate area to indicate he was under the influence.