Woman, 18, gives birth in car with help of Phuket traffic cop

An 18-year-old Phuket woman gave birth to a healthy 3.8 kilo baby in a car at 9:30am yesterday morning (July 1) with the help of her brother-in-law and a Chalong traffic cop. The woman has named the girl Nong Baimon.

Snr Sgt Maj Somboon Khanpetch, chief of the traffic police at Chalong Police Station revealed that while he was on duty at Chalong Circle on Chao Fa East Rd a Honda City had stopped and its driver was calling for help.

“The driver shouted that there was a woman, Ms Chadaporn Kongsamoot, 18, from Trang, on the back seat ready to give birth. I ordered all traffic at the circle to move aside to let the vehicle pass to go to Chalong Hospital which is about 500 metres from the Circle,” he said.