A STOURBRIDGE dad has told of the dramatic moment his new daughter was delivered on a hospital car park after a frantic, film-like dash to hospital.

James Brady's baby girl couldn't wait to make her entrance and was delivered by midwives on standby before partner Vicki Clark could even get out of the car on arrival at Russell's Hall Hospital.

The little one, the couple's second child, was born seconds after they pulled up outside the Dudley hospital's main entrance - and no more than 40 minutes after Vicki's waters broke.

Mr Brady, a plumber, said the newest addition to the family arrived without warning, prompting a movie-style mad dash to the maternity ward.

He said: "At 12.07 Vicki said to me I think I'm having a contraction - and she was saying I feel like I could push. I had a look and I could just see the head and I thought 'oh my God'."

But with his Range Rover in the garage after failing its MOT - he bundled himself and his partner into their Seat Ibiza, which had been sitting idle on the drive for 12 months, and put the pedal to the metal for the emergency journey to hospital.

Mr Brady, aged 30, said: "I was driving with one hand while holding the head with my other hand, and I did run a couple of red lights - I had to; it could have been life and death."

Having alerted the maternity ward to their plight - midwives rushed out to the car as it pulled up and within moments the little one weighing 7lbs 14 ounces made her grand entrance at 12.35am on May 14 with Vicki still in the front passenger seat.

The 34-year-old mum, who works in sales, said: "As soon as we got there and James let go and walked to the other side of the car she was born."

James added: "When we got into the hospital they said 'you've done all the work' and they told us next time to have a home birth."

Vicki and James, from Wollaston, who have been together for 13 years, have since called their daughter Nia - formed from the letters of her three-year-old brother Cian's name.