Alleged hit-and-run foiled after driver’s car calls the cops on her

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/12/08/alleged-hit-and-run-foiled-after-drivers-car-calls-the-cops-on-her/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nakedsecurity+%28Naked+Security+-+Sophos%29

 

“There was no accident,” Cathy Bernstein stressed to the emergency response dispatcher who had called her.

Her car begged to differ.

“Attention!” the automated call from the black Ford Escort’s vehicle emergency system had said after detecting a crash and calling emergency number 911.

“A crash has occurred in a Ford vehicle. Press 1 at any time for location information or press 0 to speak with vehicle occupants.”

A recording of the call obtained by local station WPBF features Bernstein, a 57-year-old from Port Lucie, Florida, telling the dispatcher (repeatedly) that there hadn’t been any accident and that no, she hadn’t been drinking.

Nor had she hit a guardrail, she said; another car had pulled out in front of her, but she had no idea why her car would call in a nonexistent accident.