TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona highway trooper getting ready to cite a speeding driver instead wound up helping a woman in another car who delivered a baby boy on the side of the road. 
 
 This photo taken Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 and provided by Courtney Benavidez, Benavidez takes a selfie while holding her newborn after giving birth in a car on the side of the road near Bisbee, Ariz. Benavidez’... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, Trooper Miguel Rincon, left, holding Benavidez's newborn son Carter Jett, poses for a photo with Courtney Benavidez and her husband,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Trooper Miguel Rincon was conducting a traffic stop Saturday on a highway near the southern Arizona town of Bisbee when a car pulled up behind him. The driver told Rincon that her granddaughter was about to give birth and that they needed an ambulance. 
 
 But the baby couldn't wait. 
 
 Courtney Benavidez gave birth in the car. The baby was out before Rincon even had time to run over to her. 
 
 He let the speeding driver go. 
 
 Benavidez named the boy Carter Jett, a reference to how quickly he was born. 
 
 She was in labor for only about an hour and a half. He grandmother was driving her to the hospital, but Benavidez couldn't make it. The women pulled over when they saw the trooper's patrol car. 
 
 "I was just in shock, and I couldn't believe it," Benavidez told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I think I went pale." 
 
 Rincon, a seven-year veteran with the Arizona Department of Public Safety, said he stayed calm and handed Benavidez a blanket for the baby. An ambulance arrived and took mom and infant to the hospital. 
 
 They were released the next day and are in good health. 
 
 "I'm just absolutely thankful and blessed because things could have gone down south very quickly, and I'm just thankful that everything turned out OK," Benavidez said. 
 
 Rincon said he doesn't have medical training to deliver a baby, but his instincts kicked in as he ran to get a blanket for the newborn. 
 
 "The only training I can say is I do have three kids of my own, so that kind of makes me a little familiar with the process," he said. 
 
 Benavidez, a third-grade teacher, said she was shocked by how quickly things moved. Her 4-year-old daughter was born after 12 hours of labor, and she wasn't expecting such a speedy delivery. 
 
 "It's very surreal how it happened, but I'm so thankful that everything turned out OK and we're all OK," she said. ||||| “This is definitely No. 1 for me as far as surprise factor,” Trooper Miguel Rincon said. (Source: Arizona Department of Public Safety) 
 
 A state trooper said he just happened to be in the right place at the right time Saturday, Nov. 14 when an expectant mother was about to give birth on the side of the road. 
 
 
 
 A car pulled up behind Trooper Miguel Rincon on State Route 80 outside Bisbee and a woman ran up to him saying that she was rushing her granddaughter to the hospital. 
 
 Courtney Benavidez said she called her grandmother for a ride to the hospital after her water broke. 
 
 Adrian Borquez, her husband, was in Phoenix for the night because no one expected a baby for another two weeks. 
 
 But that expectation changed once Benavidez climbed in her grandmother’s car on the way to the hospital. 
 
 Baby Carter was on his way regardless of the setting. 
 
 “I just knew there was no stopping him coming,” Benavidez said. “So he made his debut and came on the side of the road.” 
 
 Rincon said he left the traffic stop he was tending to at the time and ran to his car to call for medics and grab some gloves and blankets. By the time he returned to the car, Rincon found Benavidez already holding her newborn. 
 
 “Everything happened so quickly that there wasn’t really time to think about much,” he said. 
 
 So quickly, in fact, that Borquez said it helped the family decide on a middle name for their son. Down to two options, Mom and Dad decided on “Jet” because of Carter’s speedy arrival. 
 
 “I think Jet was very appropriate,” joked Benavidez. 
 
 Rincon wrapped the baby boy in blankets and cared for him and his mother until medics arrived on scene. 
 
 Both are doing fine and were discharged the next day from Canyon Vista Medical Center in Sierra Vista. 
 
 A certified peace officer with DPS since 2008, Rincon said this is his best experience since joining the force. 
 
 “You’re always thinking criminal activity,” he said. “This is definitely No. 1 for me as far as surprise factor.” 
 
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– Miguel Rincon was trying to settle up a speeding violation Saturday on a highway outside Bisbee, Ariz., when things went in a totally unexpected direction. A car pulled up behind him, and the driver told Rincon that her granddaughter was about to give birth, the AP reports. But Courtney Benavidez couldn't wait for an ambulance—that baby was coming right there in her car. Rincon alerted medics and rushed back to his patrol car to get gloves and blankets, per KSAZ. But by the time he returned to the pregnant mom, she was no longer pregnant. Little Carter Jett—so named for his super-speedy entrance—had arrived. "I just knew there was no stopping him coming," Benavidez tells Tucson News Now, explaining that her husband was out of town because the baby wasn't due for another two weeks. "He made his debut … on the side of the road." As for Rincon, he tells the AP he's had no official training in birthing babies, but "I do have three kids of my own, so that kind of makes me a little familiar with the process." He also let the speeding driver go. (At least she knew the baby was on its way—this Massachusetts woman had no clue.)