Interpretation ID: nht88-3.29
TYPE: INTERPRETATION-NHTSA
DATE: 08/30/88
FROM: SPENCER A. DORBY -- SATE-LITE MFG. CO.
TO: JOAN TILGHMAN - NHTSA
TITLE: 2166
ATTACHMT: ATTACHED TO LETTER DATED 11/07/88 FROM ERIKA Z JONES TO SPENCER A DARBY, REDBOOK A32, STANDARD 125; LETTER DATED 05/19/88 FROM SPENCER A DARBY TO JOAN TILGHMAN RE REQUEST FOR INTERPRETATION OF FMVSS 1255, OCC-2166
TEXT: Dear Ms. Tilgham:
Attached is the drawing we referred to this AM on the phone, showing the recommended diagrams to help insure that Warning Device user will know how to erect the Emergency Warning Triangle properly.
As Chairman of the SAE Reflex Devices Subcommittee, I will be including these diagrams (or similar versions) in an updated version of SAE 774, a Recommended Practice document of the Society of Automotive Engineers, in the next approval process due thi s year.
Please call if I can be of any further assistance.
ON ANY TYPE HIGHWAY VEHICLE USING 1 TRIANGLE
Figure 3.
ON A NON-DIVIDED HIGHWAY TRUCK USING 3 TRIANGLES
Figure 4.
ON A DIVIDED HIGHWAY TRUCK USING 3 TRIANGLES
Figure 5.
RECOMMENDED DIAGRAMS TO BE "PERMANENTLY AND LEGIBLY MARKED" ON THE WARNING DEVICE, AND ALSO ON THE "OPAQUE PROTECTIVE REUSABLE CONTAINER".
Sate-lite MFG. CO.
CAD TITLE
125 DIAGRAMS
TRIA-DIA
Drawing Number 880830