Interpretation ID: aiam0025
Executive Vice President
Peugeot
Inc.
107-40 Queens Boulevard
Forest Hills
NY 11375;
Dear Mr. Combe: In answer to your letter of May 26, concerning Federal Motor Vehicl Safety Standards Nos. 208 and 210, your interpretation is correct: a four-passenger automobile (such as the Peugeot 404) must have two Type 2 seat belt assemblies for the front seat passengers if the windshield header is within the head impact area, two Type 1 or Type 2 seat belt assemblies for the front seat passengers if the windshield header is not within the head impact area, and two Type 1 seat belt assemblies for the rear seat passengers. However anchorages for Type 2 seat belt assemblies are required in the rear to enable the owner to install Type 2 seat belt assemblies should he desire to afford his rear seat passengers this means of protection.; Sincerely yours, Robert M. O'Mahoney, Assistant General Counsel