In the state of Florida, a man was driving on the highway at night when suddenly he lost control of his vehicle dodging an animal on the roadcausing his car to roll into a nearby canal. The man was trapped under his car in the waterunable to move or locate mobile phone to call for help.

However, his cell phone did that for him. Martin County deputies received a voice message on their phones telling them that there was a traffic accidentand quickly mobilized to the scene of the accident.

“The owner of this iPhone has been in a serious car accident and is not answering the phone. The emergency location is latitude 27.1195, longitude – 80.481, with an estimated search radius of seven meters,” said the message automatically sent by the mobile phone.

Authorities found the man exactly where his device indicated. ‘That man was alone, his car was under water’said Agent Budensiek. “And if that phone hadn’t called for him, chances are he wouldn’t have been found until early morning five hours later.”

“Without that call, something would have happened to him,” added the sheriff’s chief assistant, who recalled that hypothermia can be fatal.

“And we’re in South Florida, so there are animals in those channels — there are alligators, snakes and other things that could also be a hazard on top of what was already going on,” he said.

The saving call came from a state-of-the-art mobile phone.able to detect a traffic accident and send an audio message to the emergency services with the coordinates of the accident, if the owner does not cancel this function within 20 seconds.

After his rescue, officers took the man to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for his minor injuries.