Watch as Florida deputy delivers baby girl on the side of the road
No traffic stop is routine in Florida.
Around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, Collier County sheriff’s deputy Robert Pounds spotted a car speeding down the road, doing 63 mph in a 45 mph zone. He turned on his lights and sirens and barreled down Airport-Pulling Road.
After he pulled over the car and was walking toward it, the driver yelled, “Officer help! Officer help! My wife is in labor.”
The speeding driver was the father-to-be.
The driver’s wife can be heard screaming, “Help me! Please help me!” in video released Wednesday by the sheriff’s office.
Pounds said in the video he could see the baby’s head starting to emerge, so he called for back-up and paramedics.
He then ran to his car, grabbed some sterile gloves and a blanket, and was poised to deliver the baby.
With the help of the father, the deputy delivered a baby girl within minutes.
Pounds made sure the baby was breathing as she “squeezed [his] finger with a nice, firm grip.”
Once paramedics arrived, they cut the cord, checked out the mother and baby then took them both to the hospital.
Although not all Florida traffic stops have happy endings, this one ended with a newborn baby girl, a smiling father — and no ticket.
“In my 26 years as a law enforcement officer, I’ve never encountered a traffic stop where someone was giving birth,” Pounds said on the video. “It was exciting, it was a bit nerve-racking but I was happy to be the one to help these people have their child.“
This story was originally published October 1, 2019 at 11:25 AM.
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