Couple ticketed while speeding to delivery room

A Massachusetts couple heading to the hospital with a new baby on the way ran into some ticket trouble on the highway.

Jennifer and John Davis were stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic during the November 18 rush hour.

With Jennifer’s contractions just three minutes apart, her husband started driving in the breakdown lane.

The couple said two state troopers allowed them to use the lane, but when they ran into a third, he refused to cut them any slack on their way to Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge.

According to the couple, the trooper had the couple wait while he gave a citation to another driver and then gave John an envelope and told him he would be getting something in the mail.

They received a $100 ticket about two weeks later.

Jennifer also said the trooper made her feel as though she needed to prove that she was pregnant.

“He came over and said ‘What’s under your jacket?‘ and so I said ‘My belly.‘ And he waited and was just kind of looking at me, so I took that to assume he wanted me to open up my jacket. And I did,“ Jennifer said.

Their daughter Charlotte Jane was born hours later in the hospital

The couple plans to appeal the ticket.

A spokesman for the State Police said the trooper was using his discretion in following the breakdown lane law. If the Davis family decides to file a formal complain the incident will be reviewed.