By James Hinton
The Boston Herald
BOSTON — State troopers moonlighting as midwives helped deliver a baby girl off I-93 in Quincy in the pre-dawn hours yesterday.
A Plainville man racing down I-95 to Brigham and Women’s Hospital with his pregnant wife called 911 at 2:30 a.m. and told state police that the number of females in the car looked like it was going to double too quickly to make it.
Trooper Scott Walker of the Milton Barracks spotted the vehicle on Interstate 93 and told the desk sergeant to have the expectant couple exit at Furnace Brook Parkway in Quincy . . . and to get Fallon Ambulance there ASAP.
However, the little girl was in no mood to wait for the medics, so Walker did the honors, assisting the mother to the backseat of the family car and delivering the baby at 2:51 a.m.
Mother and baby were then shifted into the ambulance and delivered to Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The little girl, whose name was not immediately available, is just the latest to be ushered into this world by the staties.
On July 18, troopers Frank Parker and John Arone directed the baby traffic when Gabriella Bonassera decided to make her debut appearance in a Volkswagen Passat, after her frazzled father took a wrong turn and ended up stuck in Route 2 traffic.
Troopers Christopher St. Ives, Albert Balestra, William Newton and Joseph Gray responded to assist Trooper Walker in yesterday’s delivery.
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