A BABY girl entered the world yesterday in the way she will probably spend much of her life . . . in a Hong Kong traffic jam.
Sara Kwan Li Kwan-ping was forced to virtually hijack a car after she went into labour but was unable to find a taxi to take her to Tang Shiu Kin Hospital.
Mrs Kwan, 31, was at her 13th-floor flat in Yick Fat Building, King's Road, when she felt labour pains at about 8.45 am. Her elder sister, Lai Li Wing-sau, raced from her home in Kornhill Gardens to help.
'My waters had broken in the lift. We waited about 10 minutes but still couldn't get a taxi. My sister and I then decided to stop a car in front of us and we jumped in,' she said.
The flustered woman driver quickly realised the situation and drove on to the Eastern Harbour Corridor . . . and straight into a traffic jam. As the car inched forward, Mrs Kwan's sister was forced to deliver the baby.
'Everything happened so quickly. My baby really wanted to come, I couldn't stop her. It was all over in five minutes,' said Mrs Kwan, who runs a Wan Chai beauty salon.