LI Expressway Special Delivery: Officers Help Woodbury Woman Give Birth On Shoulder Of Roadway

Police officers and paramedics helped a woman make a very special delivery on the shoulder of the Long Island Expressway.

Photo of SCPD Highway Patrol officers involved in the delivery of the baby, left to right: Officer Kenneth Bunger, Sergeant Justin Carey, and Officer Matthew Siesto.
Photo Credit: *Suffolk County Police*

Joe Lombardi

02/26/2023 2:45 p.m.

Suffolk County Police Highway Patrol officers, along with an SCPD Fifth Precinct officer, responded to a 911 call reporting a woman in labor in a vehicle on the right shoulder of the westbound LIE, near Exit 53 in Brentwood, just after 2 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 26.

When they arrived, Amy Steinberg, age 36, of Woodbury, 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 and her daughter were transported to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore in good condition

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