Crash Rescue Delayed 19 Hours – OnStar Mistakes, Police Use Apple iPhone To Find Woman
October, 2014
Dear Care for Crash Victims Community Members:
Here’s a disturbing, intriguing, and inspiring story of a rescue that involved a Coast guard helicopter rescue of a woman involved in a rollover crash into a ravine. Watch videos of the story at
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Woman-Rolls-500-Feet-Down-Mount-Hamilton-Rescue-Underway-279139781.htmlhttp://abc7news.com/news/police-use-iphone-to-track-down-missing-woman/350061/http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/10/14/onstar-mistakes-may-have-delayed-rescue-of-woman-trapped-in-san-jose-ravine-for-19-hours-mount-hamilton-road-chevy-cruze-melissa-vasquez/
I retired from NHTSA in 2007 to advance such Automatic Crash Notification (ACN) technologies because the agency was not doing its job advancing the technology. I did not know at the time that GM was controlling NHTSA to prevent government involvement in this life saving technology. It still is.
And the life saving potential is still great. Government can work to save lives when it is freed from corporate captivity.
Lou
