Birth in a stream
PA Hamilton A woman and her baby daughter are safe and well in Te Awamutu Hospital after a harrowing delivery in the back of a capsized, partly submerged ambulance east of the town early yesterday. The ambulance left the road and plunged into a boulder-strewn stream shortly before 3 a.m. and the woman gave birth while the ambulance driver, Mr Dudley Morris, went for help. “They were trapped in the back and I could not get them out,” Mr Morris said later. The woman has not been named, but Mr Morris said that mother and baby were both well. A Te Awamutu emergency fire truck and wrecker helped free the patient, her. newly bom infant, a sister who attended the birth, and a friend of the mother. The sister and friend had been riding in the ambulance. Mr Morris said rain had turned to ice on the backcountry roads. “I lost control of the ambulance at the bottom of a hill,” he said. The vehicle had slid and tumbled down a 5m bank into a stream, coming to rest upside down in 60cm of water.
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Press, 14 July 1982, Page 1
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