WhatsApp for cyclist rescue
A cyclist managed to be rescued thanks to the WhatsApp APP , after having suffered a fall with several injuries. The cyclist could send your location in real time to the emergency services, which has served to locate him and send a rescue
According to the Iberobike website, the events occurred last Sunday around 13:00 p.m., when the cyclist was pedaling his bicycle in Pontevedra, Galicia, specifically in the vicinity of the Santa Comba de Bértola parish in Vilaboa.
Everything indicates that the cyclist fell off his bike suffering Considerable injuries on one leg and one arm, which prevented him from moving from the accident site.
Thanks to the use of the WhatsApp APP, he was able to send the exact location to emergency services, so they could rescue him.
Thanks to new technologies and his mobile phone, he was able to contact the emergency number 112, and through the mobile WhatsApp messaging application he was able to send his exact location to be attended to.
Once 112 had the exact geographical point of the cyclist's location, the Integrated Emergency Care Center was able to communicate nearest medical ambulance and the Civil Guard agents where the cyclist was wounded to be treated. The O Morrazo Fire Department also arrived at the place.
Once stabilized the cyclist was transferred to the nearest hospital where he recovers from the injuries suffered in his bicycle accident.
Thanks to this simple step that we should all know and practice, we can be served anywhere in the country, even when there are no roads, highways or signposted points around us.
It is enough to open the WhatsApp messaging application, choose the contact where we want to send the location, in this case a number offered by the emergency service itself 112, and click to share location.
If we are in movement, we also have the possibility of send location in time part, so they can know at all times where we are and where we are going.
