Vehicle door latch

A method of preventing a detent lever of a vehicle door latch assembly from moving to a disengaged position when the detent lever has been moved to an engaged position by a remotely activated actuator, the method comprising:

• pivotally securing a fork bolt to the vehicle door latch assembly for movement between an unlatched position and a latched position;
• pivotally securing the detent lever to the vehicle door latch assembly for movement between the engaged position and the disengaged position wherein a contact surface of the detent lever engages a contact surface of the fork bolt when the detent lever is in the engaged position and the fork bolt is in the latched position;
• preventing the detent lever from moving into the disengaged position from the engaged position until an inertia block out assembly of the vehicle door latch is moved from a blocking position to an unblocking position;
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• moving the inertia block out assembly from a blocking position to an unblocking position, by a manual override mechanism, wherein the manual override mechanism requires at least three consecutive independent actions to be performed to move the inertia block out assembly from the blocking position to an unblocking position, wherein the detent lever is capable of being moved from the engaged position to the disengaged position when the inertia block out assembly is in the unblocking position.