Low temperatures and snow degraded road conditions in West Farmington, Ohio, prompting drivers like Tyler Krotzer to head home. He was heading to his job when he determined conditions made his journey unsafe.

“The roads were pretty bad and I was like, ‘You know what? This is probably not worth it. It’s going to take me an hour and a half to do another drive,’ so, I turned around,” Krotzer told WKBN.

He input his address into his GPS, and Apple Maps directed him to take a different route. It claimed to avoid road closures and traffic. Everything went smoothly until his Lincoln sedan hit a particularly icy patch of grass.

“I guess my tire caught the grass, sent me over the embankment, into the air a little bit, and then right into the water,” he recalled. Suddenly, he found himself stuck in a frozen lake. He panicked, but his smartphone took the reigns.

“When I hit the water I was like, ‘Well, that definitely isn’t good,’ so I put all the windows down, even the sunroof and Siri called 911 and I just went out of the sunroof,” he said. He explained that 911 dispatchers instructed him to do so.

He said his Apple Watch also alerted his girlfriend to his exact location.

“That’s a pretty cool feature, you know. Siri called 911 and it texted my girlfriend letting her know where I was at so everything was safe and sound. Sucks she had to wake up to that but she’s a good girl,” he said.

His frozen car was recovered, but Troopers said he was to blame

Shortly after he escaped from the frozen water, emergency personnel dispatched a local towing company to help pull the car from the water. A diving team had to dive into the water to ensure the car was properly hooked up to the truck.

Even though it was an accident, state Troopers told the outlet he’d be cited for failure to control his vehicle. According to Ohio statute 4511.202, it’s a fifth-degree misdemeanor punishable by a fine as high as $150.

Sgt. Matthew Langston, the Trooper who arrived on the scene, said drivers need to slow down to maintain control.

“My best advice you know with the road, you just gotta slow down. It’s very scary when you’re driving at a high rate of speed, things can happen in a split second,” explained the officer.