Tyler Rathjen designed to move forward as his wife, Ashley, began to give birth to their son in the passenger seat. But a red light with heavy traffic finally forced him to stop.
"I don't have to stop, I'm not going to, I'm going to get to the hospital," Tyler Rathjen recalled thinking in an interview with Cedar Rapids TV station KCRG (http://bit.ly/ZOaOiD).
Head and arms of the child was already out by the time that Iowa City officer Kevin Wolfe has reached the passenger door.
"We were all having a different experience," said Wolfe.
Ashley Rathjen gave to his third son, Owen, a few blocks from Mercy Hospital Iowa City on 10 March.
"I kept saying: there's no breakage (contractions) there is no rupture," he said. "It was coming at that time".
Wolfe helped with the final stages of delivery and then escorted the Williamsburg family in hospital. His dashboard camera captured the incident.
Owen is now home with her parents and two brothers.
Ashley Rathjen said that her infant son will probably tell the story for years to come.
"I'm sure it will be a life story to tell everyone (about) as he made his grand entrance," he said.
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