Innovative System Enables Hearing-Impaired to Call for Emergency Services

TMC.net editor Michael Dinan reports on Wireless Text-Messaging Service Revolutionizes Emergency Response for the Impaired a very interesting new emergency service: Hearing impaired people in County Kent (England) can send a text message to a short code asking for assistance.
This is a tremendous asset -- many hearing-impaired use texting as a communications device outside the home. Even though this is not available (yet!) in the U.S., it merited featuring here.