A WOMAN who was forced to give birth by the side of the road after getting stuck in traffic has been reunited with two strangers who came to her rescue.

Sian Berry’s mum Christine was driving her to a routine appointment at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford on Monday when she suddenly went into labour.

Seconds later they ground to a halt in nose-to-tail gridlock on The Slade in Headington.

Miss Berry, 25, recalled: “I just said to mum ‘I don’t know if I’m going to make it – it’s really hurting’.”

Her mum managed to get out of the traffic jam, pull over and call 999.

But Miss Berry had started to give birth in the passenger seat of her Vauxhall Mokka, and both mother and daughter were beginning to panic.

A woman stopped and asked if there was anything she could do, and when she realised what was going on jumped into the back of the car, grabbed Miss Berry’s hand and gave her all the encouragement she could.

It later turned out that Doga Tasli, originally from Cyprus, had never even seen a newborn baby before, let alone helped deliver one.

But Miss Berry said: “She was really good – I was squeezing her hand.”

In the middle of the confusion, a man walked up to the car and offered his help.

Thinking that it might be better to wait for the paramedics, Miss Berry’s mum thanked the man but declined.

But Miss Berry said: “All of a sudden he took off his jacket and said ‘it’s OK – I’m a doctor’.

“He flashed his badge at my mum then starting helping out.”

The man turned out to be Dr Ioannis Spiliotis, an endocrinologist at the JR.

He told the Oxford Mail: “When I arrived I saw this poor lady in the passenger seat and I could see the baby’s head.

“I wanted to get her to hospital but everything was happening so quickly I said ‘right, we’ll do it here’.”

An ambulance arrived but the paramedics handed gloves and towels to Dr Spiliotis.

Miss Berry, who is already mum to Kerris, eight, and Alfie, six, said: “It was amazing, he just delivered the baby. Even when the paramedics came they just stood back and let him do it.

“We wouldn’t have done it without him.”The whole thing was over in 20 minutes and baby Mia, weighing in at nine pounds and half an ounce, arrived healthily.

Yesterday, back at home in Berinsfield, the Oxford Mail reunited Miss Berry with Dr Spiliotis and Ms Tasli, and they got to say hello properly to Mia.