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Check this article out from www.theiowachannel.com...

Navigation System Tattles On Driver To Police

Driver Charged With Reckless Driving

 

POSTED: 6:44 p.m. CDT April 7, 2003

UPDATED: 6:55 p.m. CDT April 7, 2003

 

DES MOINES, Iowa -- A vehicle's navigation system helped alert Des Moines police solve a weekend hit-and-run accident.

 

Investigators said a driver hit a pole and large pine tree before police say he left the scene. Marks on the tree are close to seven feet off the ground.

 

"As he came through, he came through this tree and somehow he managed to get clear up this high. I'm a little under six foot, so this is seven foot or better where he hit this street," Knapp Properties worker Chris Gray said.

 

A few blocks away, police pulled over a damaged sport utility vehicle after seeing parts falling off it.

 

A short time later, an OnStar operator called police to report that the exact same SUV had just deployed its airbags at 31st and Grand. Police said that's the site of the accident.

 

The OnStar system automatically transmits its location to one of its operators when air bags go off and that operator calls for help.

 

Police charged the driver with leaving the scene of an accident and reckless driving.

 

No one was hurt in the accident.

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