A stunned dad has told how his partner gave birth in the footwell of his car as he was doing 70mph in a motorway fast lane. Lee Reynolds, 34, thought he had “plenty of time” when Natalie Whitton, 31, went into labour in the early hours of Wednesday morning with their second child.
But as the pair were blasting along the M65, near Burnley, Lancashire, he watched in shock as his new baby, Harrison, “shot out” into the footwell of his Ford Fiesta estate, reports the Hull Daily Mail. Lee, who was on the phone to a midwife for most of the journey, said he remembered thinking, “Oh, s***! We ain’t going to make it," just moments earlier.
And following the sudden arrival of his 7lb, 11oz baby, he peeled off onto the hard shoulder to wait for an ambulance crew. But as the minutes ticked by with no sign of a medic, the concerned dad decided to make a dash for the nearest hospital, where Natalie got immediate assistance.
