A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper earlier last month helped deliver a second child in less than a month on a roadside after a family realized they were not going to get to a hospital in time.
The Kansas Highway Patrol said that on Jan. 12 just after 4 a.m., troopers received a call about a family heading to the hospital to have a baby but they were not going to make it there.
The couple was identified by KWCH as Lauren and Mike Rosales.
“The minute I told Mike that it was time to go, I just felt like we weren’t going to make it,” Lauren Rosales said. “All of a sudden, things got really real really fast and about the minute we got in the car, I was like, ‘Mike, this baby is coming. We’re not gonna make it.’”
The hospital in Wichita was over an hour away from Ark City, according to KWCH.
Soon after Master Trooper Da’Von Brame arrived, he and the baby’s father helped deliver the infant on the roadside just off the shoulder of Interstate 35, authorities said.