Ohio woman stopped for speeding, gives birth right there

By: Crimesider Staff
Topics: Daily Blotter

Special Delivery: Debbie Richmond's daughter, Sarah

(Credit: CBS/WBNS)

(CBS/WBNS/AP) COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A traffic stop for a Columbus woman resulted in a speeding warning...and a new baby.

Donna Richmond was pulled over Tuesday morning as she was trying to rush her pregnant daughter, Debbie, to a hospital. The State Highway Patrol officer told the grandma-to-be she was going 90 miles per hour.

Not fast enough, apparently.

During the traffic stop, Debbie Richmond says she screamed from the front passenger seat, "I'm in labor!"

The trooper let them go with the warning, but the delay from the stop kept them from reaching the hospital in time, so Debbie gave birth to her daughter in her mother's Hyundai.

"I was holding my legs together," Debbie Richmond told CBS affiliate WBNS. "She just popped right out. No pain medication or nothing."

Father Randall Altman said he sat in the backseat of the car trying to keep it together.

Debbie Richmond and baby Sarah were recovering at Mount Carmel West Hospital on Tuesday.

We were sort of hoping she'd name the kid Hyundai.

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by angelofurnightmare February 2, 2012 10:25 AM EST: While in labor with my oldest son my ex husband was pulled over...the cop told me I wasn't "big enough to be in labor..that's a lame excuse" By the time EMS got there since he wanted to be sure I wasn't lying I had to be rushed through a snow storm to the hospital where I made it in the doors just 9 minutes before he was born. I was IRATE with the officer so when I got the ambulance bill of $300 I sent to to the police department...after a week I was notified the Deputy Fife (as in Barney cuz he was stupid) had to personally pay the bill. He also had to issue as letter of apology and was reprimanded for not escorting us to the nearest hospital..lol...makes an interesting story to tell my son now though :); Reply to this comment