A Topeka (Kan.) motorist who crashed his pick-up truck off Interstate 70 was located by dispatchers at the Shawnee County’s Consolidated Emergency Communications Center, which implemented Phase II wireless E911 features just two months ago. The 42 year-old man’s truck left the roadway as he reached for his cellular phone, rolled on its side and then slid underneath a bridge. He was unconscious for 30 minutes, but then awoke to dial 911. He gave the calltaker the last off-ramp he had passed, but that location turned out to be over a mile away in the other direction. Dispatchers immediately saw his location as just south of SE 10th Street, and dispatched units to the location. Center director Bill Singer told a reporter that without Phase II, “I don’t know if we would have ever found him.”
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