This is a cautionary tale that happened to my wife. I have to pass this along so everyone can be prepared.
My wife was coming home from work one day when she saw a car in the ditch along side the road. She pulled off and found an older lady that had spun her car and skidded into the ditch. The older lady did have a cell phone and had called someone in her family, but unfortunately, that person didn’t answer the call. My wife decided that the next step was to call the police, but she knew that this was not an emergency, so calling 911 was not the right number. The non-emergency numebr was not in my wife’s phone nor did she know it from memory. My wife actually called me to ask for the number, but I didn’t have it stored in my phone either. I had to look the number up in the phone book and give it to her. Despite those minor setbacks, the story does have a happy ending. The local police sent someone out, and the older lady’s relative arrived and to get her out of the ditch.
So, what’s the moral of the story? Find your local police department’s non-emergency number and store it in your cell phone as a new contact. Rest assured that both my wife and I now have that number stored in our cell phones. Cause we just never know when we’ll need it.