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Calgary Taxi Driver Helps Deliver Baby Girl During −23°C Winter Storm

Medical staff quickly took over outside Calgary's Peter Lougheed Centre after the cab pulled up just short of the emergency entrance.

Overview

  • Driver Hardeep Singh Toor was dispatched late at night to transport a woman in active labor to Peter Lougheed Centre.
  • With temperatures near −23°C and icy roads from a winter storm, the baby arrived in the back seat just blocks from the hospital.
  • Toor stopped and notified hospital security, and clinicians rushed out to assume care of mother and child.
  • The newborn was reported healthy, and the baby’s father was overcome with emotion at the scene.
  • Toor, who has driven cabs for four years, called the experience the best memory of his life and a first in his career.