Moss Accident Reconstruction & Consulting (Formerly Miles Moss & Associates)
12900 SW 84th Street (305) 205-2176
Miami, Fl 33183 AaronBMoss@gmail.com
How to Determine if Vehicle has an EDR “Black Box”
Identify Year, Make, and Model of Vehicle
If unknown get Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) from driver’s side door or base of windshield (17 digit alpha-numeric)
Go to http://www.decodethis.com/ and enter VIN to get Year, Make, and Model
Go to http://www.cdr-system.com/resources/coverage.html to see if that vehicle is covered
If interested in what information may be in that vehicle, install Crash Data Retrieval (CDR) System software from same site (Free)
Go to help file under “Vehicle and Cable Lookup”
Select Make of vehicle
Select Year of vehicle
Select Adapter/Cable next to model of vehicle (8-10 digits)
Read information and remember this data will not necessarily be on module, but may be there
Click here for a printable version.
Click here for a sample CDR download