LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Last year, there were more than 1,000 deadly car crashes in Michigan -- 160 of them involving alcohol.

But Kelly Coffey says there is something different about her son’s case that makes it even more disturbing.

“Everybody got a notice on their phones, ‘crash detected,’” she said.

The notification came through on a location sharing app that Kelly and her family use to stay connected, delivering the news that her son, Tyler, was involved in a car crash.

“When I got to the emergency room, they put me in a room for like 45 minutes, didn’t tell me anything,” she told News 10. “Finally, I went and stood in the hallway. They said, ‘you can go and have a seat.’ I said, ‘no, you can tell me where my son is. That’s what I need to know. I need to know if he’s alive.’”

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