AUDIO: CAR CALLS 911 ON HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER
In Port St. Lucie, Florida, Cathy Bernstein, 57, tried speeding off after hitting both a truck and a van, but her own Ford cut her escape short, police said. Her car’s 911 Assist system SYNC, gave details to police, including her location, and put Bernstein on the phone with a dispatcher. The system automatically calls police if the car’s been involved in an accident that deploys an airbag. While on the line, she denied that she had been in a car accident, telling the operator a car had only pulled out in front of her black Ford but didn’t hit her. The operator seemed skeptical. “Your car wouldn’t call us if someone pulled out in front of you unless there had been an accident,” she said. When police went to Bernstein’s house, they saw the Ford with a wrecked front-end, with silver paint from the other car still on it. The airbag was also deployed. She continued her lies, telling cops she had hit a tree, cops said. Bernstein eventually admitted to hitting a car and leaving the scene, and police learned she was actually fleeing from another crash before she rammed into the second car. Bernstein was charged with a hit-and-run.
* The car also reported that the woman had been cheating on her diet.
* Plus the truck and the other car offered to appear as witnesses.
* That explains some of these new car models like the Chevy Snitch.
* Then there’s the Nissan Rat.
* The Honda Stool Pigeon.
* Get used to it. These machines will be monitoring our every step from now on.
* She should have told the 911 dispatcher she hit a silver-pained tree.
* Fortunately, while she was lying to police her smart phone found her a good lawyer.
* Uh oh. Now the car is demanding some reward money.
CLIP: An edited version of the 911 call, where the woman denies she was in an accident.
