Of course if my phone is switched on and I go missing, then it's possible to find me
Some cars have the facility to call emergency services if they sense they've been in a crash.
Or it might not have happen like that at all, surely a relative alerted would phone the person involved, not intermediately phone the ambulance or the old bill.
Its equally likely a passing someone phoned the crashed abandoned car into the police, who ran the number plate, and went to the OP's son's mates house.
I find it scary that Google etc can trace our movements like that.
I was reading about the cross bow killer in wales.
He was grassed up by his Volvo gps system. Which records everywhere you have been. It’s amazing what information is recorded without your knowledge.
Thought is was a discovery?
There's a thread somewhere on here about it with a link to a copper explaining how they could see every door opening etc, I'll have a search.
Been listening to the podcast on BBC Sounds about this, it was a Discovery that was torched, but the Police got the telematics from JLR, and it did give a full time line of every thing the car did, and where it went, it uploaded the GPS data to the cloud for JLR
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/insurance-premiums-for-young-drivers.257979/page-4#post-5898614That's the one about the crossbow killer, I've had a search but can't find it so it must have been in the old politics forum.