<p>"This is the first occasion where a case like this has occurred in seven years of operating the drunk-driving checkpoints," the Mexico City Public Safety Office said in a communique Wednesday.<br /><br />Sabino Cabrera Torres and Alicia Bonilla had gotten into a taxi to go to a health clinic to get medical attention because the expectant mother's water had broken.<br /><br />"With the serious situation the woman was in, the taxi driver came across the checkpoint" and stopped there to "request help", and the officers posted there immediately called an ambulance.<br /><br />The officers who normally are tasked with arresting drunk drivers showed calmness and focus and managed to "stabilise the lady" who gave birth shortly thereafter right in the taxi.<br /><br />The ambulance personnel arrived at the site of the incident, which is in the working-class neighborhood of Iztapalapa, and "confirmed the birth of a boy in good health, who was transported to the De la Villa Children's Hospital along with the mother, where both are reported to be stable", authorities said. <br /></p>
<p>"This is the first occasion where a case like this has occurred in seven years of operating the drunk-driving checkpoints," the Mexico City Public Safety Office said in a communique Wednesday.<br /><br />Sabino Cabrera Torres and Alicia Bonilla had gotten into a taxi to go to a health clinic to get medical attention because the expectant mother's water had broken.<br /><br />"With the serious situation the woman was in, the taxi driver came across the checkpoint" and stopped there to "request help", and the officers posted there immediately called an ambulance.<br /><br />The officers who normally are tasked with arresting drunk drivers showed calmness and focus and managed to "stabilise the lady" who gave birth shortly thereafter right in the taxi.<br /><br />The ambulance personnel arrived at the site of the incident, which is in the working-class neighborhood of Iztapalapa, and "confirmed the birth of a boy in good health, who was transported to the De la Villa Children's Hospital along with the mother, where both are reported to be stable", authorities said. <br /></p>