--- title: Cop Delivers Couple’s Baby After Stopping Them for Speeding description: The police officer was in for a surprise when he stopped a car running red lights and speeding late at night canonical: https://time.com/4001806/seattle-police-video-baby-delivery/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-18T16:48:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:33.743Z og:title: Cop Delivers Couple’s Baby After Stopping Them for Speeding og:description: Watch the dashcam video og:url: https://time.com/4001806/seattle-police-video-baby-delivery/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta44b708be31d3910/69885fd2524fc03a4bdf41ae/gettyimages-111900668.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5413 og:image:height: 3045 og:image:alt: 111900668 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cop Delivers Couple’s Baby After Stopping Them for Speeding twitter:description: Watch the dashcam video twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta44b708be31d3910/69885fd2524fc03a4bdf41ae/gettyimages-111900668.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cop Delivers Couple’s Baby After Stopping Them for Speeding > Sponsored content. 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Officer Anthony Reynolds noticed a car running red lights and speeding at about 3:45 a.m. local time (6:45 a.m. ET) Sunday, [police said](http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2015/08/17/officers-pull-over-speeding-car-end-up-delivering-baby/). When he ordered the vehicle to stop, the driver jumped out and shouted that his wife was in labor. Although Reynolds called for an ambulance, the couple’s baby arrived before medics and can be heard screaming in the video. “After first giving a full-throated cry as she burst into the world, the… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dashcam-video-shows-seattle-cop-delivering-baby-after-traffic-stop-n411586?cid=par-time-article%5F20150818) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4001806/seattle-police-video-baby-delivery/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4001806/seattle-police-video-baby-delivery/"},"headline":"Cop Delivers Couple’s Baby After Stopping Them for Speeding","datePublished":"2015-08-18T16:48:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:33.743Z","description":"Watch the dashcam video","url":"https://time.com/4001806/seattle-police-video-baby-delivery/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Family","police","U.S.","Washington","Seattle","Childbirth"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta44b708be31d3910/69885fd2524fc03a4bdf41ae/gettyimages-111900668.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta44b708be31d3910/69885fd2524fc03a4bdf41ae/gettyimages-111900668.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"111900668","caption":"111900668","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4001806/seattle-police-video-baby-delivery/","name":"Cop Delivers Couple’s Baby After Stopping Them for Speeding"}}]}] ```