MILILANI, Hawaii -- We have all seen it in the movies. A lady in labor going to emergency is stopped by police then escorted to the hospital.

A Mililani couple said it did not happen that way for them. They said police delays nearly led their baby to be born on the freeway.

A Mililani family is frustrated by a Honolulu Police Department officer's actions on pulling them over for speeding when they were rushing to get to the hospital to deliver their baby.

Early Wednesday morning, Tiffany Brown's contractions were a minute apart. On the H-1 Freeway in Kalihi they slowed to about 45 mph and were not that worried when a police car hit its lights.

"Because I thought as soon as I tell this guy this story he would let us go, escort us, whatever," Jeff Brown said. "I turned on my hazards. I kind of waved out the window hoping that with some kind of communication he would catch on there was an emergency and he would be good."

"He lectured my husband about being a danger to everybody else on the road. I am there screaming, 'Help, help. I am in labor. I am ready to give birth,' and he told us 'Wait,'" Tiffany Brown said.

They were forced to wait for an ambulance with Jeff Brown timing contractions. They said it was about 15 minutes. Their other two children -- 2 and 7 -- sat in the back seat. Then, Tiffany's water broke.

"Anything could have gone wrong, but we were parked there. We were barricaded in on the side of the freeway," Tiffany Brown said.

"'Let me take my wife to the hospital. They are not doctors. They know the state of emergency,'" Jeff Brown told the officer and others that had gathered.

Tiffany Brown was brought to Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children by ambulance where she gave birth about 1 a.m. She was sad to be alone, that's because her husband, her parents and her doctor had all gone to Queen's Medical Center, where the police told them paramedics took her.

"I couldn't even grasp what was happening. I was looking for a familiar face and no one was there," Tiffany Brown said.

Although their frustration with the police lingers, they take comfort by their thriving baby, Donovan, who came home healthy on Thanksgiving.