‘Find My iPhone’ app leads to woman and her car 200 feet below road, CA officials say

A woman was rescued from her crashed car 200 feet below a road after her family tracked her location with the “Find My iPhone” app, California officials said.

Fire officials were dispatched to Highway 18 north of 40th Street, according to a Dec. 26 Facebook post by the San Bernardino County Fire Department.

The woman had been driving back from a family gathering when her car crashed and toppled 200 feet below the roadway, according to the release.

When her family hadn’t heard from her, they tracked her phone with Apple’s “Find My iPhone” app, officials said. They went to the phone’s location, found her and called 911.

Crews “initiated advanced life support interventions” while rescue teams set up a rope system to raise the woman back up to the road, fire officials said.

Officials said she was then loaded into an ambulance and taken to a local hospital.

San Bernardino is about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.

This story was originally published December 28, 2022 at 10:29 AM with the headline "‘Find My iPhone’ app leads to woman and her car 200 feet below road, CA officials say."