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Car crash victim saved from death thanks to iPhone alert

The iPhone recognized the crash and sent an automated help message to the authorities. | Fountain: Photo by Sanket Mishra on Unsplash

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Man driving down the highway at night Florida when he lost control of his car after dodging an animal on the road. The car overturned in a nearby canal and he was trapped. His iPhone rescued him, the officer said on Thursday.

Agents in Martin County (East) received a call Tuesday evening with an automated message, Assistant Chief of the Local Sheriff’s Office John Budencik said.

“The owner of this iphone He has been in a serious car accident and is not answering his calls. The location of the state of emergency is 27.1195 latitude, longitude 80.481, the estimated search radius is seven meters, ”the message was repeated in the cycle.

Having left for the indicated place, not far from the rural town of Indiantown, the investigators found a car turned over in the water and its driver, a 38-year-old man, immobilized and with signs of hypothermia.

Thanks to Apple technology

The life-saving call came from a new technology on his cell phone. iphone 14. Apple’s latest model is capable of detecting traffic accidents and sending an audio message with the coordinates of the accident to emergency services if the owner does not disable this feature within 20 seconds.

“This man was alone, his car was flooded,” Officer Budensik said. “And if that phone hadn’t called him, there’s a good chance he wouldn’t have been found until dawn five hours later.”

“Without this call, nothing would have happened to him,” added the chief deputy, reminding that hypothermia can be fatal.

“And we are in the south Floridaso there are animals in those canals: there are alligators, snakes and different things that can also be dangerous in addition to what has already happened, ”he said.

Agents managed to get the driver out of the car, who was taken to the hospital where he was treated with minor injuries. (AFP)

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