We at Malouf Ford want to tell drivers in North Brunswick, NJ about LATCH evaluations and how they impact children. LATCH stands for Lower Anchors and Tethers for Children. It was developed to make car seat installation easy.
Even though most modern cars use it, up to 75% of car seats aren't properly installed. The IIHS began to rate how easy car latches were to use back in 2015. At that time, most cars performed poorly, meaning they weren't easy to use.
Today, about 2/3 of cars rank as good according to the IIHS scale. A car's lower anchors must be less than 3/4 in deep in the seat bight to get this score. If there's open access to them, the lower anchors can be slightly deeper. Also, they must have a clearance angle of more than 54 degrees to score well. Finally, it can't take more than 40 lbs. of force to connect something to them.