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ABC News (4 March 2026) reports that “According to Clermont County officials, Burns was wearing an Apple Watch that automatically called 911 using its crash detection feature”. Body-camera footage released by the Clermont County Sheriff's Office shows a dispatcher keeping her on the line. Central Joint Fire-EMS District firefighters and sheriff's deputies smashed a window and pulled her out. First-year firefighter Tommy Jetter was first into the water. Burns had found a pocket of air of about four inches at the floorboard. The accident report says she walked away with bruises. Burns told WKRC (11 March 2026) that there was also “a crash detection on the Live 360 that my mom had on her phone”. She said it called the police and her family, so a second crash-detection service may have placed calls. 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It called the police." }, { "kind": "press release", "citation": "Apple Support. Use Crash Detection on iPhone or Apple Watch to call for help in an accident (article 104959).", "title": "Use Crash Detection on iPhone or Apple Watch to call for help in an accident", "url": "https://support.apple.com/en-us/104959", "date": null, "written_by": "makers", "quote": "If you're unable to respond, your device automatically calls emergency services after a 30-second countdown." } ], "replication": { "produced_by": [ "A supported Apple Watch (Series 8 or later, SE 2nd generation, Ultra) with Crash Detection on and a cellular or Wi-Fi path to emergency services", "A severe crash (rollover into water) with the wearer unable to reach a phone", "A dispatcher able to act on the automated call and location" ], "must_hold": [ "The on-device crash classifier recognizes the impact as a severe car crash", "The wearer does not dismiss the alert within the countdown", "Responders can reach the transmitted location in time" ], "echoes": [ { "date": "2024-12-16", "setting": "Easthampton, Massachusetts: Brent Hill, 55, blacked out while driving and landed upside down in a neighbor's pool; emergency services spoke to him through the watch and arrived within minutes (Western Mass News, 16 January 2025)", "model_version": null, "outcome": "recurred", "source": "https://www.westernmassnews.com/2025/01/16/easthampton-man-credits-apple-watch-helping-save-his-life/" } ] }, "paired_incident": null, "headline": "Apple Watch Crash Detection calls 911 for Andi Burns in a river", "metric": null, "comparator": null, "later": { "status": "persisted", "date": "2026-03-11", "note": "WKRC reported on 11 March 2026 that Burns was alive and well and had thanked the Clermont County responders; ABC News (4 March) said the accident report recorded only bruises.", "quote": "A local woman is alive and well after she's rescued from frigid waters by first responders.", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260311210830/https://local12.com/news/local/woman-thanks-rescuers-who-saved-her-from-crash-into-clermont-county-creek-andi-burns-ice-little-miami-river-apple-watch-thomas-jetter-first-responders" }, "value": null, "developer_country": "United States", "deployer_country": null, "unrated_because": null, "brief_notes": null, "brief": null, "revisions": [ { "date": "2026-10-20", "change": "Record drafted from the cited sources.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Benefit type set to Improved Physical Health under Trustible's full taxonomy of 23 types; it was Improved Accessibility among the six first used.", "source": "https://trustible.ai/post/a-framework-for-measuring-the-benefits-of-ai/", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Added what happened since from the cited sources.", "source": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260311210830/https://local12.com/news/local/woman-thanks-rescuers-who-saved-her-from-crash-into-clermont-county-creek-andi-burns-ice-little-miami-river-apple-watch-thomas-jetter-first-responders", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Country of the developer added from the organization's own site or a registry.", "source": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.", "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Prose pass: a rating reason, account, purpose, the system's part rewritten in shorter sentences with abbreviations expanded; facts, figures and quotations unchanged.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "change": "Notes about which sources could be read were reworded for readers; facts, figures and quotations unchanged.", "source": null, "editor": "AIBD" } ], "confidence": "reported", "shade": "medium", "claim_status": "Independently reported", "claim_basis": "Sources: three independent news reports and the makers' press release. 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