(Photo Courtesy of WPXI-TV Pittsburgh, Posted on Facebook on January 25th, 2026)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A woman in Pittsburgh gave birth to a baby boy on the side of Interstate 279 while driving to the hospital yesterday morning. The Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS posted on Facebook that day that the mom and the baby are “doing fine” after the boy made a “hurried arrival.” According to officials, first responders were called around 12:30 a.m. to help assist the woman and her newborn, who was born on the side of the Parkway North. Crews found them near the East Ohio Street exit. Pittsburgh EMS confirmed that crews checked both mom and baby and prepared them for transport to a local hospital.