ATLANTA — Trooper Brett Rutledge has spent the last seven years serving with Georgia State Patrol. Family inspired his law enforcement career and his military service in the Army before that. And while he’s used to abiding by the rules of the road, Rutledge never expected a new milestone in his career that would bring new life into the world.
“You never know what you’re going to find riding around on the road,” Rutledge said. “I was actually on the way into work. I hadn’t really started my shift. We’re in stop-and-go traffic coming down I-85. I was just trying to get to headquarters and get my day started. There was a car on the left shoulder with its hazards on. I didn’t think anything of it, and as I passed by it in stop-and-go traffic, they come driving up next to me.”
Last Friday, Rutledge said the man flagged him down and conveyed that his wife was expecting and about to have her baby. Stop-and-go traffic delayed an ambulance, so the trooper had to take action himself…