Baby born in rush hour traffic jam on N3

AMBULANCE officer Paul Gray successfully delivered a baby in about 60 seconds in rush hour traffic in Dublin on Wednesday evening.

Mr Gray is operations manager at the Health Service Executive’s ambulance control base in Navan, Co Meath, and was off-duty.

The boy’s father, Dr Razan Alresai, realised his child was not going to wait any longer as he tried to drive through the traffic.

Dr Alresai’s wife, Razan, had gone into labour with her second child.

Mr Gray, a father of twins living in Rathgar, Dublin, told the Gerry Ryan Show yesterday that the baby was born on the N3 near Blanchardstown.

“Everybody was stopped in the Dublin direction but I noticed a blue BMW coming up on the far right hand side on the grass verge with its four flashers going,” he recalled.

After discovering that the woman in the blue BMW was having a baby, Mr Gray put on his high visibility jacket and walked across to the car on the grass verge.

“I could see the woman kneeling on the front passenger seat facing the back of the car so I went back to the Jeep and put on the blue lights while her husband pulled in behind it,” he said.

The baby’s head was starting to appear when Mr Gray went back to the car to help Dr Alresai, with the delivery.

Five minutes later an ambulance arrived.