Hero Of The Day: Pregnant Woman Gives Birth During Car Wreck, Then Can't Find Baby

[Sugar Cookie]

Good luck and calm thinking helped Lilburn police make a remarkable discovery at an accident scene earlier this week.

They found a newborn baby.

Crystan Graham went into labor before dawn Monday. Her mother Krystal Jones was frantically trying to drive her to the Gwinnett Medical Center.

The road was wet. She hydroplaned their Chevy Tahoe as they sped down Lawrenceville Highway, crossing the road and crashing into the gate of the BAPS Hindu Temple.

Somehow, as the crash was happening, Crystan delivered her daughter while sitting in the back seat.

Only problem, in the darkness no one could find the baby.

“Where was the baby at?” Lilburn police officer Danny Bride asked as he walked up to the chaotic scene, his body camera recording the entire encounter.

“We don’t know!” cried Ms. Jones. “I was just trying to get to the hospital.”

Confused, officer Bride asked again.

“Where was the baby at?”

“In her womb!” exclaimed Ms. Jones. “She was giving birth!”

Luckily, officer Bride just happened to be driving by the scene seconds before the accident happened. So did officer Cepeda Huff.

Sergeant Matt Madden would arrive a minute later.

“We thought the baby might have gone out the window because there was so much debris in the back,” officer Bride explained during an interview with FOX 5. “Our concern was whether the baby got tossed into the backseat or got tossed through the window.”

The SUV’s windows had been shattered in the accident. Officer Huff tried to scan his flashlight across the wet ground, the pre-dawn darkness not helping one bit.

“With the Georgia red clay and a newborn baby, I was thinking it was blending in with the mud,” said Huff.

On the body camera video, you can see Bride suggest Huff look under the middle row seat of the SUV. He thought he saw part of the umbilical cord poking out.

She was there. And she was alive.

“There is like a small little drop-off under the seat,” Huff explained later. "And that’s where the baby laid right into a little pocket. And that’s where I found her.”

Huff gently scooped up the little girl, being careful she wasn’t caught on anything.

The officers rushed the baby to a waiting ambulance, then ran over to the new mom and new grandmother to deliver the good news.

“We got your baby,” said Bride. “Looks to be fine. She’s breathing and moving just fine.”

Pregnant woman gives birth during car wreck, then can't find baby

Good luck and calm thinking helped Lilburn police make a remarkable discovery at an accident scene earlier this week.

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[Sejanus]

So did the impact make her honk out the baby?
If so, that's kinda funny since it ended well.
Like if you punch someone in the gut so hard they crap their pants.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

This is freakish.

The driver should have just calmly drove.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

The mother should be cited for speeding & wreckless driving. It's lucky they didn't hit another vehicle.

 

[cubby]

Okay I live like about 50 or so miles south of there, that night was horrendous with tornadoes showing up allover the state, (2 tornado watch alerts for our area) the rain was bucketing down, so yeah grandma should have been driving a lot more carefully, no matter what was going on in the back seat. But baby girl's got a great story of the day she was born.

 

[Old Man Metal]

Always nice to see good policework.

 

[Ramona the brave]

So, sounds like baby was just coming out, mom was screaming, Grandma got so freaked she crashed the car. She probably should've just pulled over, but who knows what was going through her mind... If the weather was that bad... What a scary experience!

 

[Inferus]

All I ever find is loose change.

 

[cubby]

If the weather was that bad.

It was that bad. And it's trying to happen again today. Tornado warning and thunder storms and rain,rain and more rain.

 

[Symmachus]

Wow, that's one way to enter the world. It is literally an origin story.

The world awaits his/her greatness...

 

[Sevens My Charm]

@Sugar Cookie we don't say it enough but we truly appreciate everything you do for us without you we would be missing a heart..

 

[Blizzard]

All I ever find is loose change.

I found a french fry once.

Oh wait, I found a partially eaten bag of cookies like 2 weeks ago. They weren't that old. They were still good! Not mushy or anything.

 

[Inferus]

I found a french fry once.

Oh wait, I found a partially eaten bag of cookies like 2 weeks ago. They weren't that old. They were still good! Not mushy or anything.

Worst thing I ever found was a week old bag of Chinese food...and something was moving in it!