Police unlock injured woman's iPad tablet to locate her

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CAMPBELL, Calif. ? A woman who lay badly injured for 19 hours after her car plunged down Mount Hamilton was rescued Tuesday morning after a police officer unlocked her iPad tablet and used smartphone tracking technology to locate her :happy:, authorities said.

Melissa Vasquez was lifted out of her overturned car by a line from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter at about 9:15 a.m. and she was flown to Regional Medical Center of San Jose with major abdominal and leg injuries, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The victim is a Campbell resident in her late 20s who had been lying inside her Chevrolet Cruze compact car since 2 p.m. Monday, but is expected to survive her injuries, CHP spokesman Officer Ross Lee said.

Vasquez had been ejected from the vehicle and was laying face down in the ravine at 5:30 a.m. about 500 feet down an embankment off the west side of Mt. Hamilton Road.

CHP Officers, along with Santa Clara County Sheriff Deputies remained at the scene until they were able to safely extricate the driver who was conscious.

Campbell police Lt. Gary Berg said that around 2 p.m. Monday, the OnStar security system in the woman's car notified the Police Department that it had been in a rollover accident, but reported the location as at Camden Avenue and state Highway 17 in San Jose, Berg said.

Campbell police searched streets in the area, the CHP looked on nearby highways for two hours and the woman's car horn was activated through OnStar but they could not find it.

At about 4 p.m. Monday, the system reported that the car was in downtown San Jose possibly near Fourth Street and San Jose police were notified but the car could not be found, Berg said.

At about 3 a.m. Tuesday, the woman's family called Campbell police to report her missing, saying that it was out of character for her not to be home, police said.

A Campbell police officer responded to the family's residence, asked them about her cellphone, which was an iPhone, then took the woman's iPad tablet and began trying a number of potential passwords, such as her birthday and address, Berg said.

The officer finally succeeded in choosing her password, accessed the iPad and went to the "Find my iPhone" application for tracking iPhones and pinpointed the location of her phone and car.

Santa Clara County sheriff's deputies were then sent to the car's location and worked on getting the woman out of her overturned car and the CHP took over the investigation into the crash, Berg said.

"We feel pretty fortunate our officer was able to get into that iPad," Berg said.

After the woman's car left the road and went down the steep hill, it turned over and came to rest on its roof, Lee said.
 
A Coast Guard helicopter arrived on scene shortly after sunrise and a medic was lowered to evaluate and treat the woman.

The woman's condition was stabilized and she was to be airlifted to a local hospital for treatment of moderate to major injuries.

Lee said the woman was conscious and complaining of abdominal pain.

 

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Lee said the woman was conscious and complaining of abdominal pain.

 

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Ebola?

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Moral of the story, make sure you have strong passwords. 
If a cop can guess it within 10 tries, its obviously a weak password and needs to be changed.

[Ian S.]

Doesn't the iPad get locked after multiple tries, then you have to plug it into iTunes? He must have been VERY lucky.

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Ebola?

 

Really? thats the 1st thing you are asuming?  no concern for the welfare of the person who was in an accident?

Moral of the story, make sure you have strong passwords. 

If a cop can guess it within 10 tries, its obviously a weak password and needs to be changed.

 

no moral here.

Doesn't the iPad get locked after multiple tries, then you have to plug it into iTunes? He must have been VERY lucky.

Yes the police officer was lucky, had that device been setup to wipe its self after x amount of entry's, who knows what would have happened to the woman in the story.

Also the police officer did not need to use her iPAD, all he needed to do was contact apple and they would have been able to locate her, at least she is now in hospital receiving the care she needs.

[DocM]

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Really? thats the 1st thing you are asuming?  no concern for the welfare of the person who was in an accident?

 

no moral here.

Yes the police officer was lucky, had that device been setup to wipe its self after x amount of entry's, who knows what would have happened to the woman in the story.

Also the police officer did not need to use her iPAD, all he needed to do was contact apple and they would have been able to locate her, at least she is now in hospital receiving the care she needs.

Guess you havent read many of Enron's posts.

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Moral of the story, make sure you have strong passwords. 

If a cop can guess it within 10 tries, its obviously a weak password and needs to be changed.

Then she would have died. :huh: