A man who drove off a 400-foot cliff was saved after his iPhone alerted the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department about the crash, police said. First responders received a message from the driver&…
A man who drove off a 400-foot cliff was saved after his iPhone alerted the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department about the crash, police said.14 at 10:30 p.m. on Friday, informing them that he had crashed off of Mt. Wilson Road near the Angeles National Forest.
Officials from the Crescenta Valley Station said first responders were able to hear the man yelling from down the cliffside. A rescue helicopter was called to take him to a local hospital. “Without that timely notification of the iPhone Crash Detection, nobody witnessed him going over, who knows if he ever would have been found.” LeumA car was left destroyed after plummeting off a 400-foot cliff near the Angeles National Forest on Friday.The driver was found ejected from the destroyed car, with the crash setting off his iPhone.
The iPhone’s crash detection system activates when it detects a severe crash, automatically calling 911 if its user doesn’t respond after 20-seconds, according to Apple.The company says the device has a high G-force accelerometer that can sense extreme accelerations or decelerations up to 256 Gs — or 256 times the force of gravity — to determine what constitutes a crash.
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