MURRAY — Thursday was no typical Thanksgiving for Daxton and Vannessa Lowe, after she gave birth to a baby girl on the side of the I-15 freeway in Murray.

The Utah couple were en route to the hospital Thursday evening after the expecting mother began to feel labor pains coming on.

They planned to drop their nearly 2-year-old daughter off with family and thought they would have enough time to comfortably make it to the hospital.

But as Daxton Lowe had taken their toddler inside their family member’s home and was grabbing some Thanksgiving dinner for his wife to eat on the way to the hospital, she started feeling intense birth contractions.

“I called him and I said, ‘Get the food, come back to the car — I’m dying right now,” Vannessa Lowe said Friday, as she and her husband spoke with r

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