Your vehicle owner's manual will tell you if LATCH is present. Any car made after September 2002 must come with LATCH in at least two seating positions. Most belt-positioning booster seats do not need to be attached to the vehicle so they do not come equipped with LATCH. LATCH is used for both rear- and forward-facing child safety seats. Simply put, it works by using a built-in strap with hooks on the child's safety seat which attach to anchors in the car. That's why a different system was developed for installing child safety seats without the use of seat belts. Between the different types of cars and child safety seats, there are literally hundreds of different ways to install a child seat. Three out of 4 car seats are not installed correctly. Narrator: Of all the frightening statistics we hear about child passenger safety, this may be the scariest.
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