NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. — A northern Indiana man who crashed his car while talking on his cellphone was discovered badly injured by officers who used a messaging app to find the wrecked vehicle, police said.

Officers were contacted late Tuesday by someone who told them they were talking to Easton Adkins, 19, of Columbia City when they suddenly lost contact with him as he was driving near Durham Lake. The caller said people were searching the area for Adkins.

The Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday that officers obtained a location from Snapchat, a multimedia messaging app, and then found Adkins’ wrecked car near the public access entrance of the Pisgah Marsh Nongame Area, The Journal Gazette reported.

Adkins was then flown to a hospital and was reported in critical condition, police said.

Police investigators believe Adkins was driving east on a county road near North Webster when his car left the road and hit a tree about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of Fort Wayne.