A US teenager says he owes his life to his iPhone after his car slid off the road and into a river.
Gael Salcedo, 18, was driving to his university in Iowa when his Jeep hit a patch of ice and plunged into the Winnebago River.
Salcedo needed to call for help, but couldn't find his phone. In a moment of quick thinking the teenager shouted "Hey Siri, call 911!"
Luckily, the voice activated control worked and emergency services were able to find him quickly and help him out of the icy river.
"I didn't know where I was going and then I just didn't know what to do. I was just thinking in my head 'I think I'm going to die,'" he told CBS affiliated news site KIMT.
With the river pinning his driver's door shut, and water rapidly rising through the vehicle, Salcedo had to be helped out of the passenger side of the car by firefighters.
He then had to wade through the freezing river to the safety of the shore.
"I was struggling a lot, the water was just so strong so I kept tripping and I had [the firefighter] help me up a bunch of times," he said
Salcedo was taken to hospital in an ambulance and treated for shock - he was discharged three hours later.
