2023-08-16 20:01:00
Cara, 30, immediately panicked when she received a disturbing message from her husband Daniel last June. Some information on its position and a simple “SOS”. This is the content of the SMS which plunged the thirty-year-old into endless anguish. Especially since, in the process, his many calls went unanswered.
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It was finally in desperation that she dialed the emergency number. Rescuers who were already on their way to the position because they too had received Daniel’s SOS message. However, it was not the 32-year-old dad who sent this distress text. Victim of a violent accident with a truck in Slingsby (England), unable to move and suffering from multiple fractures, it was his Apple Watch that took over.
As The Sun explains, the smartwatch detected, through the health indicators it measures, that Daniel was in bad shape. She therefore sent the signal to 999 as well as to his wife (registered as an emergency contact, editor’s note), as new Apple products allow today.
“I never would have imagined”
This intervention saved the life of the young father. “I am very lucky to be alive. If the watch hadn’t done what it did, I think the result would have been quite different,” he told the British media. “I never imagined that I would ever need my Apple Watch in a situation like this. »
If he suffered numerous injuries (fractures to the sides, thigh, sternum, back or wrist) and was plunged into a coma for five weeks, Daniel was able to return home to finish his recovery. And get his watch back. “The police recently returned it to me. I always use it. »
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