Auckland: An alert New Jersey State Police sergeant saved the day for a couple on the way to the hospital to have a baby.
Sgt. Sean Boag was on his way home Friday on the Garden State Parkway when he heard on his radio that a woman was going into labor on the side of the highway near Middletown.
Boag arrived in a few minutes and helped deliver a baby girl.
"I told her to push," Boag said. "A couple more pushes, we were able to pull the baby all the way out and once I cleaned her mouth, I got the mother and wrapped her up in a blanket and placed (the baby) on the mother's chest and that was it. We waited for first aid to arrive."
The couple from Lakewood was driving to a hospital in New Brunswick when they realised they weren't going to make it in time. Their names haven't been released.
Boag tells The Asbury Park Press that he'd never done a delivery before but that state police are well-trained for many emergency situations.
"We are well-trained," he said, joking: "(But) I'm not sure I would take this up for a second profession."
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