Zoe Ball's dramatic day after heavily pregnant woman injured in the street

Zoe Ball has revealed how she drove a 'very heavily pregnant' woman to hospital after she fell over in the street. The 53-year-old presenter told how her day took a dramatic turn after hosting her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show on Thursday morning. Ball told the show's listeners on Friday that she happened across the woman when parking near where she stays in London.

"There’s a bit of a commotion in the street and this lovely lady is on the ground and people are surrounding her and I’m thinking: 'Oh my goodness, I hope she’s alright'," she recalled. READ NEXT: RAF jets swarm plane to UK after 'bomb threat made on social media' "Anyway, it turns out she’s very heavily pregnant. Really lovely lady.



She’s had a fall. She was very shaken up. She was really winded and quite frightened, obviously, because she’s worrying about the baby.

" Ball said the woman, who was due to give birth in around a month’s time, was being cared for by a number of people, who asked the presenter if she was able to drive her to hospital. The radio host agreed and took the woman, whom she dubbed T to preserve her anonymity, on the journey along with another woman who was helping, named Jess. Zoe drove the 'very heavily pregnant' woman to hospital after she fell over in the street (Image: PA Archive/PA Images) Ball described how she was worried the woman may gave birth in the back of her car - as she had a friend who went through a similar experience in a taxi.

The presenter added: "Lovely lady called Jess was there. I was like: ‘Jess, will you come with us? Because you might have to do hot towels or something." The radio host said there was more drama when they could not get in touch with the woman’s husband, who was in a work meeting, or her mother, or her friends.

Ball said: “So we get there and I was thinking: ‘I need run the blue lights on the top of the car. I’ve never been an ambulance before.’ “But we got her to the hospital and she swapped numbers with Jess and I had to wait all day to find out if she and lovely baby were OK.

” Ball told listeners she received a message later that day confirming the mother and baby were “absolutely fine” - but the mother had fractured some ribs. The host said: "Poor love, when you’re heavily pregnant, you’ve got to go through labour, that is going to be painful." She concluded by saying: "You just never know where your day’s going to go, do you? So I’m sending T and her family lots of love and safe happy landings for when you have the baby.

" Mother-of-two Ball returned to hosting her breakfast show last month following some time off-air..