A new report today from The Sydney Morning Herald offers an interesting look at how Apple’s “Find My” app was used in a deadly police chase last month. According to the report, two wanted men in Melbourne were tracked by police using the Find My app on a stolen iPad.
The report sets the scene:
As the report says, the iPad was stolen by the two men during a home invasion. At first, the men were being tracked by following a stolen car, but when the police air wing was called in and the fugitives switched cars, police switched to the iPad.
According to police, the iPad started pinging from inside the stolen Toyota Kluger the men were driving. Police tracked the men via the Find My app on this iPad for two hours:
After a second police pursuit, the car crashed into a semi truck and both men were killed:
You can read the full report at The Sydney Morning Herald. Putting the details of the police pursuit aside, it’s an interesting look at how the criminals were partly foiled by stealing an iPad. Had police not been tracking the fugitives via the iPad, it’s possible (or likely) they would have been able to get away.
There, a second police pursuit was authorised at 9.57pm.
Forty-one seconds later the Kluger crashed at up to 100km/h after running a red light and careering into a truck towing a shipping container.
The crash caused the truck’s trailer to roll, with the shipping container landing on top of an Audi sedan. The drivers of the truck and the Audi escaped with minor injuries.
