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Siri was not just an iPhone feature for one man, but also a hero.
A man in Tennessee was saved from getting crushed under his 5,000 pound car when Siri helped him call 911, The Tennessean reports.
Sam Ray, 18, was working under his 1998 Black Dodge Dakota at his home in Rutherford County last month when the jack holding up his car fell and got him stuck underneath. Nobody was at the home or on the road nearby, except for Siri.
With his left hand pinned under the truck, Ray heard Siri’s voice form his iPhone in his back pocket. He was able to press his butt into the phone and ask Siri to call 911. At first, 911 dispatchers thought the call was a butt-dial, “but then I heard the screams for help,” said Rutherford County dispatcher, Christina Lee, to The Tennessean.
Ray’s father, Dusty Ray, reportedly called Sam before the incident urging him to not work under the car without anyone home.
“I told him to get out of there,” Dusty said to The Tennessean. “I told him I’ll be home in an hour and I’ll help you.”
Ray was trapped under the car for about 40 minutes, until firefighters arrived and propped up the car with a jack. He was airlifted to Vanderbilt University Medical Center and “was in good condition, despite suffering several broken ribs, a bruised kidney, cuts, a concussion and burned to his left arm,” said Rick Miller, Vanderbilt chief of trauma and surgical care, to The Tennessean.
Miller said Ray was very lucky, “and Ray is thanking his stars, God, and Siri,” The Tennessean reports.
Read more at Tennessean.com
