Violations of traffic laws have been making a lot of news in China recently. In one incident, Liaoning Party Disciplinary Secretary Dai Guobin, after being stopped by a traffic police officer, allegedly hit the police officer and threatened to kill anybody who came close, boasting about his powerful contacts in the government.

In another incident, head of the party’s general office of the central committee Ling Jihua had to resign at the weekend after it emerged that his son had been involved in a fatal ferrari crash.

Initially, it appeared that a Foshan taxi driver was the latest person to think traffic laws were below him. But it turns out that he was no ordinary bad driver.

The driver, Wang Shifu, picked up a pregnant woman and her husband on September 3 at the intersection of Lingnan Road and Shencun Road. Two minutes later the baby’s head started to appear, Wang told the Southern Metropolis Daily.

It was around 7:50 a.m. so the roads were busy and Wang was reluctant to break any traffic laws. He was talked into ignoring all the red lights by the husband who said he would pay the fine and take the rap.

Initially, the husband insisted on going to the number 1 hospital, but Wang told him that they had no time to lose and had to go to Chancheng Central Hospital.

When they arrived at the hospital at 8 a.m., the baby girl was fully born. The woman’s husband paid Wang 200 yuan to clean the back seat which was covered in blood and placenta.

After spending more than half a day, Wang went straight to the police station to explain why he had violated traffic laws. Police cancelled Wang’s fine after the woman’s medical history was presented to them.

Wang also told of a time he drove an injured passenger to the hospital and did not ask for a fare.

The baby is healthy and the woman’s husband, surnamed Chen, explained that the due date was September 18. They were caught off guard by the premature birth.