TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona highway trooper getting ready to cite a speeding driver instead wound up helping a woman in another car who delivered a baby boy on the side of the road. ADVERTISING TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona highway trooper getting ready to cite a speeding driver instead wound up helping a woman in another car who delivered a baby boy on the side of the road.
Trooper Miguel Rincon was conducting a traffic stop Saturday on a highway near the southern Arizona town of Bisbee when a car pulled up behind him. The driver told Rincon that her granddaughter was about to give birth and that they needed an ambulance.
But the baby couldn’t wait.
Courtney Benavidez gave birth in the car. The baby was out before Rincon even had time to run over to her.
He let the speeding driver go.
Benavidez named the boy Carter Jett, a reference to how quickly he was born.
Rincon, a seven-year veteran with the Arizona Department of Public Safety, said he stayed calm and handed Benavidez a blanket for the baby. An ambulance arrived and took mom and infant to the hospital.
They were released the next day and are in good health.
