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Summit, State Police Assist in Delivering Baby on I-78

Summit

A Summit police officer and a state trooper is being credited for assisting a woman who went into labor early this morning on a NJ highway.

According to authorities, the Scotch Plains woman was in the rear seat of a friends vehicle, pulled off to the side of I-78, when officers responded to a 911 call and spotted the vehicle upon their arrival.

Officers assisted in the delivery of the 6 pound 14 ounce baby girl authorities said.

EMS Ttransported the mom and baby to St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston where they are doing fine according to police.

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