[ExI] local high tech cops save woman with ipad

[spike]

Cool!  This is a local story, but cool anyway.  Local woman ran off the road
back of Mount Hamilton, roll-over accident not visible from the road, woman
injured bigtime.  Cops unlock ipad by guessing password and figure out where
she is, find her, happy ending.

 

http://patch.com/california/campbell/officer-unlocks-ipad-find-injured-campb
ell-woman-missing-19-hours-0#.VD6J4_ldXpc

 

Loss of privacy because of our electronic gadgets being hacked is a bad
thing.  But occasionally the good guys win:

 

 


Officer 'Unlocks' iPad To Find Injured Campbell Woman Missing For 19 Hours


The female, in her 20s, crashed and was lying alongside her car since 2 p.m.
Monday in a Mt. Hamilton ravine in Santa Clara County.


By
<http://patch.com/users/susan-c-schena5f2639ca489673e3efe4d6587b6f868fbbce9e
45b4b04dba4e9677f47ec0ff3e> Susan C. Schena (Patch Staff)Updated October 14,
2014 at 1:32 pm  

 

A woman who lay badly injured for 19 hours after her car plunged down Mount
Hamilton in Santa Clara County on Monday was rescued this morning after a
police officer unlocked her iPad tablet and used smartphone tracking
technology to locate her, authorities said.

The woman was lifted out of her overturned car by a line from a U.S. Coast
Guard helicopter at about 9:15 a.m. and she was flown to Regional Medical
Center of San Jose with major abdominal and leg injuries, according to the
California Highway Patrol.

The victim is a Campbell resident in her late 20s who had been lying inside
her Chevrolet Cruze compact car since 2 p.m. Monday, but is expected to
survive her injuries, CHP spokesman Officer Ross Lee said.

Her car was reported found by the Campbell Police Department at 5:30 a.m.
today as far as 500 feet down an embankment off the west side of Mt.
Hamilton Road, according to Lee.

[Previous:
<http://patch.com/california/campbell/crews-trying-rescue-woman-trapped-down
-mt-hamilton-ravine-monday-0> Crews Trying To Rescue Woman Trapped Down Mt.
Hamilton Ravine Since Monday.]

Campbell police Lt. Gary Berg said that around 2 p.m. Monday, the OnStar
security system in the woman's car notified the Police Department that it
had been in a rollover accident, but reported the location as at Camden
Avenue and state Highway 17 in San Jose, Berg said.

Campbell police searched streets in the area, the CHP looked on nearby
highways for two hours and the woman's car horn was activated through OnStar
but they could not find it, according to Berg.

At about 4 p.m. Monday, the system reported that the car was in downtown San
Jose possibly near Fourth Street and San Jose police were notified but the
car could not be found, Berg said.

At about 3 a.m. today, the woman's family called Campbell police to report
her missing, saying that it was out of character for her not to be home,
police said.

A Campbell police officer responded to the family's residence, asked them
about her cellphone, which was an iPhone, then took the woman's iPad tablet
and began trying a number of potential passwords, such as her birthday and
address, Berg said.

The officer finally succeeded in choosing her password, accessed the iPad
and went to the "Find my iPhone" application for tracking iPhones and
pinpointed the location of her phone and car, Berg said.

Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies were then sent to the car's location
and worked on getting the woman out of her overturned car and the CHP took
over the investigation into the crash, Berg said.

"We feel pretty fortunate our officer was able to get into that iPad," Berg
said.

After the woman's car left the road and went down the steep hill, it turned
over and came to rest on its roof, Lee said.

The CHP has not yet determined the cause of the crash, he said.

 

--Bay City News

 

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