2014 Chrysler Town & Country Owner Manual - Page 99

THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE STARTING YOUR VEHICLE 97 • Whether or not the driver and passenger safety belts To read data recorded by an EDR, special equipment is were buckled/fastened; required, and access to the vehicle or the EDR is needed. In addition to the vehicle manufacturer, other parties, • How far (if at all) the driver was depressing the such as law enforcement, that have the special equipaccelerator and/or brake pedal; and, ment, can read the information if they have access to the • How fast the vehicle was traveling. vehicle or the EDR. These data can help provide a better understanding of Child Restraints the circumstances in which crashes and injuries occur. Everyone in your vehicle needs to be buckled up at all NOTE: EDR data are recorded by your vehicle only if a times, including babies and children. Every state in the non-trivial crash situation occurs; no data are recorded by United States, and every Canadian province, requires the EDR under normal driving conditions and no per- that small children ride in proper restraint systems. This sonal data (e.g., name, gender, age, and crash location) is the law, and you can be prosecuted for ignoring it. are recorded. However, other parties, such as law en- Children 12 years or younger should ride properly forcement, could combine the EDR data with the type of buckled up in a rear seat, if available. According to crash personally identifying data routinely acquired during a statistics, children are safer when properly restrained in crash investigation. the rear seats rather than in the front. 2