Rescuers say it's unlikely a man who crashed in Angeles National Forest would've been found alive without a feature on his iPhone.
Crash detection technology available on newer model iPhones likely helped save a man's life Friday night when he drove off a cliff in the Angeles National Forest.
“Myself and another team member went over the side,” Mike Leum with LA County Search and Rescue said. “After spotting bent guard rail and bark missing off trees, he descended hundreds of feet on a rope, hoping to find the injured driver. And then 400 feet we hit the bottom, and then found his car in the stream and him ejected next to the car.
Here’s how the iPhone technology works. If you are in a severe crash, crash detection will activate and it immediately puts you in contact with the nearest 911 call center.
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