Mobile phone on Autodach: Confused emergency call triggers large rescue use!

Mobile phone on Autodach: Confused emergency call triggers large rescue use!

A spontaneous police and rescue operation was transformed into a genuine turmoil in Dahme in Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday afternoon! The reason? A forgotten cell phone on the car roof! Suddenly the smartphone fell out of his pocket while driving, and his emergency function jumped in action because it registered a supposed traffic accident. The alarm bells ringed loudly, and the cell phone immediately put an emergency call!

Ostholstein, only to find out that only the bag and the fateful smartphone were waiting for them. The 52-year-old owner of the cell phone came back a little later and clarified the confused location: his bag had simply made it comfortable on the car roof! A misfortune that triggered a chain reaction and mobilized the emergency services.

The secret of accident recognition

You often think that technology only makes life easier for us - but here a smartphone proved how important this small part can really be! More and more cell phones, including models from popular manufacturers such as Apple, are equipped with automatic accident recognition. This technology recognizes strong impact and raises the alarm if the user does not react within seconds. In this way, help can be alerted quickly in critical situations, even if the manufacturer is not directly included! A safety -conscious progress, which in this case caused a completely different incident. So the next walk with the mobile device on the car roof can really end hard!