At year end, great saves worth remembering: How an iPhone feature helped rescue people after car crashes - Fox News

One California mates is fortunate to beryllium live aft a horrific car clang successful which they fell 300 feet into a canyon — and were saved with the assistance of a new iPhone feature.

Yet arsenic fortunate arsenic they were, they're not the lone ones to person been rescued precocious with an assistance from a cellphone.

Cloe Fields, 23, and her fellow Christian Zelada, 24, were taking a thrust connected the Angeles Crest Highway done the Angeles National Forest successful southern California connected Dec. 13 erstwhile a car began tailgating them.

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When Zelada pulled implicit to fto the car pass, the car mislaid traction — and fell disconnected the roadworthy into Monkey Canyon. 

Miraculously, portion their car was wholly destroyed, some Fields and Zelada were comparatively OK. 

The mates recovered Fields' caller iPhone 14, which was shattered but inactive working.

Cloe Fields and Christian Zelada were rescued astir fractional an hr aft their car plummeted 300 feet into a canyon. Fields' caller iPhone automatically contacted exigency services.  (LASD SEB)

Unbeknownst to Fields, her telephone had a caller diagnostic that would beryllium crucial. It had "crash detection" and Emergency SOS. 

"If your iPhone oregon Apple Watch detects a terrible car crash, your instrumentality tin assistance link you to exigency services," the Apple website says. 

"Crash Detection is designed to observe terrible car crashes — specified arsenic front-impact, side-impact, and rear-end collisions, and rollovers — involving sedans, minivans, SUVs, pickup trucks and different rider cars. When a terrible car clang is detected, your iPhone oregon Apple Watch sounds an alarm and displays an alert."

Although determination was nary compartment work successful the canyon, Fields' iPhone was capable to usage satellites to alert exigency services. 

Although determination was nary compartment work successful the canyon, Fields' iPhone was capable to usage satellites to alert exigency services astir the crash. 

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By the clip Fields recovered her phone, exigency services had already been notified. 

Videos of their rescue were shared aboriginal that day by the Montrose Search & Rescue Team's authoritative Twitter account.

"This day astatine astir 1:55 p.m., [the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept.] received a telephone from the Apple exigency outer service," said the Montrose Search & Rescue Team connected Twitter. 

"The informant and different unfortunate had been progressive successful a azygous conveyance mishap connected Angeles Forest Hwy adjacent mile marker 18.87, Angeles Forest."

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The connection went on, "Their conveyance had gone disconnected the broadside of the mountain, astir 300'. They were successful a distant canyon with nary cellular telephone service. The victims were capable to extricate themselves from the car. Using the exigency outer work connected their iPhone 14, they were capable to pass to a relay halfway via text."

The relay halfway was capable to supply the sheriff's bureau with "an close latitude and longitude for the victims" — and the Montrose Search & Rescue Team was past dispatched to effort to find Fields and Zelada. 

"Air Rescue 5 was capable to find the victims and insert a paramedic. The paramedic learned the patients, a antheral and pistillate successful their 20s, had mild to mean injuries," said the tweet. 

"The chopper was capable to hoist the victims retired of the canyon and transport them to a section country hospital." 

Both Fields and Zelada were released from the infirmary the aforesaid evening of their crash. 

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Fields replied to the Montrose Search & Rescue Team's thread, saying she was "honestly grateful for you guys and everyone." 

"Thank God for my telephone obsession," she tweeted. "We are OK! Thank you all!" 

The winding roadworthy implicit Monkey Canyon successful Angeles National Forecast was astir the tract of calamity for a young mates from California.  (LASD SEB)

Fields noted, by the way, that her fellow was not utilizing the telephone portion helium was driving.

Fields credited Hyundai for redeeming her life. 

She tweeted pictures of the smashed Elantra N, saying, "The Elantra N is simply a large car. I survived a 300 ft fall." 

Apple launched Emergency SOS to iPhone 14 users successful the United States successful mid-November. 

The work makes it imaginable to connection exigency services via outer portion extracurricular the scope of cellular and Wi-Fi coverage. 

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After a clang is detected, a idiosyncratic has 20 seconds to accidental whether assistance is needed. 

If a idiosyncratic does not answer, exigency services are atomically contacted. 

After a clang is detected, a idiosyncratic has 20 seconds to accidental whether assistance is needed. 

The Emergency SOS interface includes a questionnaire to find what is incorrect earlier messaging exigency services. 

Apple's "Emergency SOS" diagnostic is credited with helping to prevention the lives of 2 radical successful California successful December 2022.  (Apple)

After the questionnaire, the idiosyncratic is told wherever to constituent the telephone and nonstop the archetypal message, including the questionnaire responses, location, altitude and different accusation to exigency services. 

This is not the archetypal time, however, that lives person been saved this way.

Crashed his car into a pole

In October, an Indianapolis man named Nolan Abell crashed his car into a pole. 

He was drifting successful and retired of consciousness erstwhile helium felt his marque caller Apple Watch Series 8 tapping connected his wrist, reported the website 9to5mac. 

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Abell's Apple Watch was contacting exigency services for him.

He was rescued successful astir 5 minutes.

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"If it weren’t for this watch, who knows however agelong it would person been for assistance to get to me," Nolan told ABC News astatine the time. 

"Someone would person recovered maine eventually, but this had EMS to maine successful 5 minutes."