Blackberry Users: Emergency Contact "qqq" or "ppp"

I was using my Blackberry the other day and had a thought - the device is almost impossible to use without looking at the screen. On a regular cellphone you can figure out where the main keys are so you could dial a number (like 911) without looking at the phone, if you have to. But the Blackberry does different things with the buttons depending on the application that it is running at any given time. So what would happen if you were in a car wreck at night on a dark country road - trapped in your wrecked car down in a dark ditch - BUT you could get hold of your Blackberry but not see it? Sounds like a fairly unlikely event, but hey - I guess I could add, what if the screen broke but the basic functionality still worked?

Here is my thought - create a contact in your contact list with the name "qqq" or "ppp", since these are the easiest non-freaky keys to find on the Blackberry keyboard.

Then do the following to access this contact without looking at the unit:
- press and hold the "back" button for a couple of seconds (exits out of anything you are in and generally clears the display)
- click the "back" button a bunch of times to make sure
- scroll the wheel up a bunch to be at the top of the application list
- click the wheel once (if locked the unit will display the unlock menu, if not it will enter the top application)
- scroll the wheel up to ensure that you are at the top of any menu
- click the wheel once again (will unlock if locked, or will access the application menu if in an application)
- click the "back" button again a bunch of times (exits out of any applications)
- the main intent of the above is to ensure that the unit is in the main application window without having to look at the screen
- click the "phone" button on the top of the unit to make the phone dialer application open
- click "qqq" or "ppp" to find the emergency contact in the address book, it should be the only entry with these three characters in a row, so it should be highlighted
- click the wheel once to get the menu, and the default highlighted option should be "Call"
- click the wheel again to initiate a call

Try it - I think it works. Might need some adjustment if you have a password protected lock option. I have the Blackberry 7250 and it works for me.

Also, there was an email floating around a while ago suggesting that you create an entry in your phone's address book with "ICE I.C.E. 911" in the name. If you are ever in an accident or in trouble and unable to communicate with emergency personnel, they could access this contact easily in your phone's address book to contact someone in an emergency - makes sense to me...