Officers and Paramedics Deliver Baby in Vehicle

Officer Kenneth Bunger, Sergeant Justin Carey, Officer Matthew Siesto. PIO,

Suffolk County police officers and paramedics from Brentwood Legion Ambulance assisted in the delivery of a baby girl in a vehicle on the shoulder of the Long Island Expressway in Brentwood this morning.

Highway Patrol officers, along with a Fifth Precinct officer, responded to a 911 call reporting a woman in labor in a vehicle on the right shoulder of westbound Long Island Expressway, near Exit 53, at 2:04 a.m.

When they arrived, Amy Steinberg was in labor in the backseat of her vehicle. Her husband Ian was with her. Sergeant Justin Carey, officers Kenneth Bunger, Matthew Siesto and Arnold Reyes, with the assistance of paramedics from Brentwood Legion Ambulance, delivered a baby girl at 2:34 a.m.

Steinberg, 36, of Woodbury, and her daughter were transported to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore in good condition.