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06/01/24 Crash Detected SOS

Andy Griffin:  Saturday night my wife and I were hanging out at a relative's house when our phones started buzzing simultaneously. It was an emergency text saying this: "Crash Detected SOS. I called emergency services from this approximate location after iPhone detected a crash. You are receiving this message because I have listed you as an emergency contact." The text came with a pin of the location and was from my oldest son's iPhone (AJ), putting him near Sand Hollow Reservoir. As any parent knows, this is the kind of text you never want to receive, and my wife and I started desperately making phone calls. We were 300 miles away and felt incredibly helpless. The text came at 9:36 p.m. and calls to his friends netted no more information. A second identical alert came about 25 minutes later and a few minutes after that, it showed on locator that he was home, so we relaxed a little, but still hadn't heard anything. About an hour after that, he texted back and said