A couple in California is lucky to be alive after their car fell over a cliff and plunged 300 feet to the ground, landing upside down in a remote canyon.

Chloe Fields, 23, and her boyfriend, Christian Zelada, 24, were taking a romantic drive through the Angeles National Forest near their home in Glendale on Tuesday. Fields told reporters that the Angeles Crest was like their backyard, and they had driven there many times. She and her boyfriend loved to go there, especially after the rain.

When the couple was halfway into their scenic drive, they noticed another car following them closely. The driver honked at them, signaling that he wanted to pass. As they pulled their Hyundai Elantra over to allow the other car to pass, their car lost control and fell backward off the cliff.

Fields said all she could see as the car plunged 300 feet was trees, smoke, and dirt. The vehicle hit trees along the way, then rolled and landed upside down in the canyon.

Fields, shocked by what was happening on their descent, said her boyfriend kept reassuring her that everything was fine and they would be okay. However, about halfway down, Zelada lost hope and thought that they would die, but after their car landed, they were miraculously still breathing.

They unbuckled their seat belts, crawled out of the vehicle, and began checking each other for injuries. Luckily, they only suffered minor cuts and bruises.

The couple then started checking for their phones in the car, but they were nowhere to be found inside. Zelada found Field’s iPhone 14 near the vehicle. It was around 2 pm, 40 degrees, and the phone was shattered with no cell reception.

Fields said they were not expecting the phone to get any reception anyway because it is common knowledge that there is usually no service at the Angeles Crest.

As their hope started fading away, a message popped on the screen saying that the phone had detected a crash and to swipe to contact emergency services. Though the screen was mostly broken, it was in good enough shape to message.

They began messaging the emergency service provider and explaining what had happened and where they were.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials rescued Zelada and Fields within half an hour. The department employed a helicopter to airlift the couple out of the canyon.

Authorities posted video footage of the dramatic rescue on social media. Fields said that she was hyperventilating while being rescued. One of the officers tried to cheer her up by telling her to smile because she was alive.

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The rescue workers flew them to a hospital in Pasadena, and doctors treated them for minor injuries and discharged them.

The iPhone alert message is part of the phone’s new emergency SOS via a satellite, which includes both crash and fall detection software and contacts emergency services via satellite if there is no cell reception. The feature is only available in iPhone 14 and 14 pro devices and only in the US, Canada, Germany, France, the UK, and Ireland.