Police officers deliver baby in car on Long Island
file image shows the feet of a newborn baby girl. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images)
NEW YORK - Two quick-thinking police officers delivered a baby girl in a vehicle on the side of a Long Island road on Wednesday morning.
Suffolk County Police Officers Danielle Congedo and Daniel Rosado responded to a 911 call of a woman in labor in a car in front of 166 Hospital Road in East Patchogue at approximately 7:20 a.m.
Nicole Gonzalez was in labor in the front passenger seat of the vehicle and Officer Congedo, with the assistance of Officer Rosado, delivered a baby girl.
EMS took Gonzalez, 27, of East Patchogue, and her daughter to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore in good condition.
There was no word on a name for the little girl.
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