HOLBROOK, N.Y. (1010 WINS) -- A Suffolk County Police Highway Patrol officer helped a woman who had given birth to a baby girl on the side of a Long Island highway Wednesday afternoon.
According to officials, Highway Patrol Officer Jesse Wenk responded to a 911 call of a woman who delivered a baby in her car on the side of westbound Sunrise Highway, west of exit 50 in Holbrook, just before at 4:30 p.m.
Upon arrival, Officer Wenk found 26-year-old Diana Suarez had just delivered the baby girl.
Officer Wenk aided Suarez and helped warm the baby with a jacket, ensuring the infant’s vitals were stable while waiting for the Holbrook Fire Department Ambulance to arrive.
Both mother and baby were transported to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore.
Both are doing well, police said.
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