On Tuesday morning, Kelly McFadden of Northeast Philadelphia was in labor, in rush hour traffic with her boyfriend trying to get her to Bryn Mawr hospital.
"My contractions were three minutes apart. So we thought if we broke the law and got stopped it might help," McFadden said.
But it didn't come to that. Driving down the shoulder toward City Avenue on 76, they spotted Trooper Peter Burghart. While they didn't know it then, they couldn't have come across a trooper more prepared.
Action News first met Burghart last summer when another young mother gave birth in a car on the side of I-95 with the help of another trooper. This time, Burghart was not sure Kelly could make it to the hospital so he called an ambulance. But when that ambulance had to turn back due to mechanical trouble, he decided they couldn't wait any longer.
"I said I'll make a deal with you. I'll get you there quick without incident, you just hold on till I get there," Trooper Burghart said.
As he tried to keep up his end of the bargain, Kelly was laying in the backseat gripping his headrest for support. Bryn Mawr was too far so they went straight to Lankenau Hospital and just in time, too.
"I don't think I was in the delivery room for more than 20 minutes. Two pushes and then my little man was here," Kelly said.
