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2023 Land Rover Defender After a Collision Owners Manual

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1 2023 Land Rover Defender AFTER A COLLISION

2 BEFORE STARTING OR DRIVING

3 SERVICE DATA RECORDING

4 WARNING TRIANGLE

5 EVENT DATA RECORDING

2023 Land Rover Defender AFTER A COLLISION

BEFORE STARTING OR DRIVING

WARNING
If the vehicle is involved in a collision, it should be checked by a retailer/authorized repairer or suitably qualified personnel, before starting or driving. A collision can damage the vehicle and its systems, making the vehicle unsafe, which may lead to serious injury or death.

NOTES
Some vehicles have an SOS emergency call button and an optimised assistance call button. See INCONTROL OVERVIEW.

NOTES
Some vehicles have a Post Crash Braking function that will in certain circumstances apply the vehicle brakes following a collision. The brakes are released when the ignition is cycled.

SERVICE DATA RECORDING

Service data recorders in the vehicle are capable of collecting and storing diagnostic information about the vehicle. Potentially, this includes information about the performance or status of various systems and modules in the vehicle. Such systems and modules are the engine, accelerator pedal, steering, or brakes.

In order to properly diagnose and service the vehicle, a retailer/authorised repairer may access the vehicle’s diagnostic information. To access the information, a direct connection to the vehicle is required.

WARNING TRIANGLE

Depending on market and local legislation, a warning triangle may be supplied with the vehicle. For vehicles with a warning triangle, it is located in the taildoor as illustrated below.

Rotate the two knobs clockwise.
Pull the cover down.

Place the warning triangle at a suitable location, to warn other drivers of possible obstruction.

EVENT DATA RECORDING

The vehicle is equipped with an Event Data Recorder (EDR). The main purpose of an EDR is to record data in certain circumstances that will assist in understanding how a vehicle’s systems performed. Such circumstances are crash or near crash-like situations e.g. an airbag deployment or hitting a road obstacle. The EDR is designed to record data related to vehicle dynamics and safety systems for a short period of time, typically 30 seconds or less. The EDR in this vehicle is designed to record such data as:

How various systems in the vehicle were operating.
Whether or not the driver and passenger seat belts were buckled or fastened.
How far, if at all, the driver was pressing the accelerator and/or the brake pedal.
How fast the vehicle was traveling.

The collected data can help provide a better understanding of the circumstances in which crashes and injuries occur.

NOTES
EDR data are recorded by the vehicle only if a non-trivial crash situation occurs. No data are recorded by the EDR under normal driving conditions. No personal data, e.g., name, gender, age, and crash location, are recorded. However, other parties, such as law enforcement, could combine the EDR data with the type of personally identifying data routinely acquired during a crash investigation.

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.

SOUTH KOREA ONLY:

Please be advised that this vehicle incorporates an Event Data Recorder (EDR).

An EDR stores driving information at the moment of accident (driving speed, application of brake pedal and accelerator control, etc.), and enables to confirm the information stored.

EDR information helps understand the circumstances of accidents more clearly.

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