Help is at hand: A police car arrives on the scene
The car immediately behind the Land Rover (ringed) is carrying Helen Osborne, who was being rushed to hospital in the latter stages of labour by her partner Richard Sullivan.
The couple were convinced they could make the five-minute drive to Leicester Royal Infirmary in time for the arrival ... until they ran into a good old British traffic jam on the city’s inner ring road on a busy Saturday afternoon.
Mr Sullivan stayed cool and, with a little help from a passing motorist, managed to deliver his daughter in the passenger seat.
What he didn’t realise was that his moment of triumph was being captured on CCTV cameras set up to monitor traffic.
He is seen pulling over in the couple’s Peugeot and running around the car looking flustered. Miss Osborne, 29, a nursery nurse, gave birth to 8lb 2oz Rosie and the family were then given a police escort to the hospital.
CCTV operators who watched the drama unfold were so fascinated by the spectacle that they tracked down the couple to give them a copy of the footage as a souvenir.
Mr Sullivan, 31, an engineer from Leicester, said: ‘It has to be the ultimate birth video and one which we’ll treasure forever. We’re going to give it to Rosie on her 18th birthday. It’ll be something she can show her own kids one day.’
In the footage, from November 20, a motorist in a silver Land Rover is seen pulling in front of the couple’s car and lending Mr Sullivan his phone.
The father-to-be called 999 and was talked through how to deliver the baby.
By then a passing off-duty police officer and a police patrol car had arrived to help direct cars past the vehicle. Motorists are shown slowing down to look into the car as they drive inches away from it.
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