STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- What started as a possible speeding ticket ended with the miracle of life.

Two police officers had stopped a woman and her husband on the Staten Island Expressway for speeding, but they quickly realized that there was a good reason for how fast they were traveling.

“We all know how that feels when you get pulled over, nobody really likes it, but last night was a little different twist as Highway pulls over a speeding car on the expressway,” Commissioner Dermot Shea said during a live Q&A on Twitter. "What do they find? The proverbial woman with husband on the way to hospital in labor. And as faith would have, they would not wait until they got to the hospital. At least the baby wasn’t going to wait.”

Police Officer Adam May and Sgt. Anthony Demonte, both assigned to NYPD Highway Patrol Unit 5, then called for back up and helped the woman through her delivery.

“I think God was looking down because we have a former EMT and a former paramedic and a cop and a sergeant deliver the baby in the car and then drive to the hospital one hand on the wheel and a hand pinching an umbilical cord delivering a healthy baby boy to that hospital," Shea said. “God bless the baby, God bless mom and dad and God bless officer May and Demonte for going above and beyond and doing what cops do everyday. Making us proud.”

A video Shea shared on Twitter shows the cops driving the woman to the hospital.

“How is the baby doing?” one officer asks the woman, who is sitting in the passenger seat. “Still moving, still breathing?”

After stopping a speeding car in Staten Island, @NYPDHighway cops found themselves delivering a baby into the world on the side of the road, then transporting mom, dad & newborn Matthew to the hospital—all while hand-clamping the umbilical cord.



Help us welcome our newest NYer! pic.twitter.com/fLP2h18hza — Commissioner Shea (@NYPDShea) April 10, 2020

The officers then arrived at the hospital where they were greeted by medical personnel.

“When they arrived at the hospital as other cops are clearing them out they were met with doctors and nurses of the hospital cheering,” Shea said. "Cheering to have something good to root for at this time that we have been dealing with a lot.”