Photo: WRAL.com
Highway Patrol troopers and cops, in general, are accustomed to seeing speeding vehicles and to pulling them over. They’re just as used to hearing all kinds of excuses and explanations for the speeding, but this time, the driver had a very good one.
Sgt. Brian Maynard with the Highway Patrol in North Carolina pulled over a speeding van in Wake County, N.C., only to find out that it was being driven by a man whose wife had gone into labor 4 days earlier than expected, WRAL reports. The driver had the hazard lights on and had actually passed the trooper before he was pulled over.
When the cop saw that the situation was truly as pressing as the driver, Jimmy Baker, had told him, he forgot about writing a ticket, got out a blanket from his cruiser and a pair of sterile gloves, and set to work helping the woman, Laura. As she tells the media outlet, she knew the baby would come before the ambulance arrived.
She turned out to be right. Maynard did call for an ambulance after pulling the van over, but the woman was already in the middle of childbirth. “I was telling them the baby was in my pants and he needed to help me,” Laura says.
Maynard’s training kicked in. He remember all he’d been taught regarding an emergency like this, and he helped Laura deliver the baby before the ambulance arrived.
“It was scary, yet rewarding at the same time. It was the first time I had to do that,” he says for the same media outlet. “I did the best I could do,” he adds with modesty.
Laura and the baby girl and Jimmy were eventually taken to the hospital, where doctors ruled that the child was healthy, having not suffered any complications during the roadside delivery. The mother and father are also ok now.
When the cop saw that the situation was truly as pressing as the driver, Jimmy Baker, had told him, he forgot about writing a ticket, got out a blanket from his cruiser and a pair of sterile gloves, and set to work helping the woman, Laura. As she tells the media outlet, she knew the baby would come before the ambulance arrived.
She turned out to be right. Maynard did call for an ambulance after pulling the van over, but the woman was already in the middle of childbirth. “I was telling them the baby was in my pants and he needed to help me,” Laura says.
Maynard’s training kicked in. He remember all he’d been taught regarding an emergency like this, and he helped Laura deliver the baby before the ambulance arrived.
“It was scary, yet rewarding at the same time. It was the first time I had to do that,” he says for the same media outlet. “I did the best I could do,” he adds with modesty.
Laura and the baby girl and Jimmy were eventually taken to the hospital, where doctors ruled that the child was healthy, having not suffered any complications during the roadside delivery. The mother and father are also ok now.
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