Video Shows Seattle Cops Pull Over Speeding Driver as Wife in Labor
Published at | Updated at(SEATTLE) — Oh baby.
Seattle police pulled over a speeding motorist, only to find that he had a pretty good reason for blowing through lights — his wife was in labor.
The incident, captured on dashcam video, shows the exchange between the motorist and officers early on Aug. 16 after the driver was spotted running red lights and speeding down Martin Luther King Jr. Way S, according to the Seattle Police Department.
“She’s in labor man,” the man can be heard shouting after he is pulled over.
“Let me go man, I can make it.”
But the officer calmly responds that they called for an ambulance.
Soon after, the wife can be heard screaming.
“Oh my god, the baby’s coming out!” she shouts.
When the baby is born, the girl struggled to breathe.
“Come on baby,” one of the officers could be heard saying. But Officer Anthony Reynolds was able to clear the baby’s airway and get her breathing again, police said.
Both mother and child were taken in stable condition to a nearby hospital, according to police.
“You have helped deliver a precious gift,” the police quoted the family as saying in their blotter. “We are so grateful.”
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