{"id":254700,"date":"2026-05-25T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/this-little-known-iphone-feature-just-saved-a-driver-from-a-330ft-fall-and-it-could-save-your-life-too\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T06:20:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:20:19","slug":"this-little-known-iphone-feature-just-saved-a-driver-from-a-330ft-fall-and-it-could-save-your-life-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/this-little-known-iphone-feature-just-saved-a-driver-from-a-330ft-fall-and-it-could-save-your-life-too\/","title":{"rendered":"This little-known iPhone feature just saved a driver from a 330ft fall \u2014 and it could save your life too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/this-little-known-iphone-feature-just-saved-a-driver-from-a-330ft-fall-and-it-could-save-your-life-too\">This little-known iPhone feature just saved a driver from a 330ft fall \u2014 and it could save your life too<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/this-little-known-iphone-feature-just-saved-a-driver-from-a-330ft-fall-and-it-could-save-your-life-too\">https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/this-little-known-iphone-feature-just-saved-a-driver-from-a-330ft-fall-and-it-could-save-your-life-too<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-25 06:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.techradar.com\">www.techradar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul id=\"elk-014d06d7-12ec-434c-ba6e-42d2a706f771\">\n<li><strong>Apple\u2019s Crash Detection feature saved a driver\u2019s life in Wales<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The woman plunged 330ft off a cliff while driving late at night<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Crash Detection automatically calls first responders if you can\u2019t do it<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"elk-eebeb9a2-742c-4b3a-858a-a1fd14183fbf\">These days, Apple\u2019s best iPhones don\u2019t just enable you to make phone calls and send texts \u2014 they could save your life, too. That\u2019s exactly what happened when a woman plunged 330ft off the side of a mountain in her car, but thankfully her iPhone came to the rescue.<\/p>\n<p>As detailed by the BBC, Natalia Sidorska was driving along a mountainside road in Denbighshire, Wales, late one evening to clear her mind. After taking a corner too quickly, she lost control of her vehicle, went off the road, and plummeted 330ft to the ground.<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-eebeb9a2-742c-4b3a-858a-a1fd14183fbf-2\">Her car rolled down the mountainside and came to a crashing halt. After opening her eyes, Sidorska realized the vehicle was on fire. After managing to escape and crawl away, she looked around to see her car explode just seconds later.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-article-heading capitalize leading-5 text-white whitespace-nowrap\"><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Latest Videos From<\/span><span class=\"jwp-carousel-brand inline-flex items-center\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/media\/img\/techradar_logo_v2.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"max-h-12 w-auto\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><br \/>\n        <span class=\"\n            flex\n            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]\n            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]\n            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold\n        \"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unbeknownst to Sidorska, her iPhone had notified first responders and her emergency contacts using its Crash Detection feature, which is automatically activated as soon as it senses a hard impact. Luckily for Sidorska, emergency services arrived 20 minutes later. \u201cI\u2019m grateful to Apple for what the iPhone did,\u201d she stated. \u201cI don\u2019t think that I would have been able to get help that quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"a-lifesaving-feature-3\">A lifesaving feature<\/h2>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/qaJ4Z3x5jULfv8WRQR8QMY.jpg\" alt=\"iPhone 14 Pro Max review Notification Center\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/qaJ4Z3x5jULfv8WRQR8QMY-1200-80.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/qaJ4Z3x5jULfv8WRQR8QMY-1024-80.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/qaJ4Z3x5jULfv8WRQR8QMY-970-80.jpg 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/qaJ4Z3x5jULfv8WRQR8QMY-650-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/qaJ4Z3x5jULfv8WRQR8QMY-480-80.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/qaJ4Z3x5jULfv8WRQR8QMY-320-80.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/qaJ4Z3x5jULfv8WRQR8QMY.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/qaJ4Z3x5jULfv8WRQR8QMY.jpg\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] inline\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caption-text\">The iOS Notification Center <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future | Alex Walker-Todd)<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-b817c68f-b610-48a5-9710-c655e6465458\">Apple introduced its Crash Detection feature in 2022, and the company has highlighted the many times it has saved people\u2019s lives since then. One of its key strengths is its ability to work automatically. When it detects a crash, it starts a 10-second countdown. If the timer is not dismissed within that timeframe, your iPhone calls emergency services for you, meaning first responders can often be alerted long before you\u2019d be able to do it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/this-little-known-iphone-feature-just-saved-a-driver-from-a-330ft-fall-and-it-could-save-your-life-too\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little-known iPhone feature just saved a driver from a 330ft fall \u2014 and it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/ZRPxL5SrjkkWULKvpd2e7T-1500-80.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69,132],"class_list":["post-254700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios","tag-iphone-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254702,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254700\/revisions\/254702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}