DEBORAH HERTZMAN
The 30,000 was far fewer than previous decades where automobile deaths had been constantly decreasing from a high of 50,000 a year.
Those greedy airplane, bus, and train operators who do not follow all the safety rules and make the investments in safety undercut the prices of the responsible operators that do. Therefore she placed great emphasis on getting the bad ones out of business. However Congress would only grant limited powers and limited budget for inspection and regulation to the Federal agencies responsible.
This is also true of industrial and other accidents. There is almost always several factors that enabled the accident to happen. There are many health officials who object to the use of the word “accident” because it implies that the event could not have been prevented when almost all of our so called “accidents” are able to be prevented.