RI highway trooper delivers baby in pickup truck

[August 27, 2009]  LINCOLN, R.I. (AP) -- A Rhode Island state trooper responding to a call of a medical emergency on a highway has helped deliver a baby in a pickup truck.

Police say trooper Matthew Salisbury arrived early Wednesday on Route 146 in Lincoln, a small town ranked among Money magazine's 100 Best Places to Live.

Salisbury saw a man standing outside his pickup truck and yelling that a woman in the passenger seat was having a baby.

The trooper helped turn the infant while the mother pushed a final time. Then he removed the umbilical cord from the baby's neck and helped the baby to breathe.

The mother and baby are healthy and resting comfortably at a hospital.

[Associated Press]

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