{"id":213306,"date":"2026-03-20T19:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/213306\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:31:10","slug":"traffic-stop-turns-into-roadside-child-delivery-in-lubbock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/213306\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic stop turns into roadside child delivery in Lubbock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A traffic stop that turned into a brief pursuit ended with the birth of a child Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The incident began at 8:44 a.m. when a vehicle failed to stop for officers. A pursuit started but was canceled at 8:48 a.m. when the driver stopped at Marsha Sharp Freeway and Slide Rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The officer realized the passenger in the car was in labor. Lubbock Fire Rescue was called to the scene as a precautionary measure to block traffic and ensure no one got hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">EMS arrived on scene and delivered the child. All lanes of traffic were opened back up right after 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A traffic stop that turned into a brief pursuit ended with the birth of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[83494,1511,83495,67387,319,66,168,170,169,223],"class_list":["post-213306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-birth","tag-child","tag-child-birth","tag-friday-morning","tag-kcbd","tag-local","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}