2012 Dodge Grand Caravan Owner Manual - Page 88

THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE STARTING YOUR VEHICLE 85 To read data recorded by an EDR, special equipment is required, and access to the vehicle or the EDR is needed. In addition to the vehicle manufacturer, other parties, such as law enforcement, that have the special equipment, can read the information if they have access to the vehicle or the EDR. WARNING! In a collision, an unrestrained child, even a tiny baby, can become a projectile inside the vehicle. The force required to hold even an infant on your lap could become so great that you could not hold the child, no matter how strong you are. The child and others could be badly injured. Any child riding in your vehicle should be in a proper restraint for the child's size. 2 Child Restraints Everyone in your vehicle needs to be buckled up all the time, including babies and children. Every state in the United States and all Canadian provinces require that small children ride in proper restraint systems. This is the Infants And Child Restraints law, and you can be prosecuted for ignoring it. Safety experts recommend that children ride rearwardChildren 12 years or younger should ride properly facing in the vehicle until they are two years old or until buckled up in a rear seat. According to crash statistics, they reach either the height or weight limit of their rear children are safer when properly restrained in the rear facing child safety seat. Two types of child restraints can seats rather than in the front. be used rearward-facing: infant carriers and convertible child seats.