Pieter van Vollenhoven is currently most well known in The Netherlands for having been the chairman of the Dutch Safety Board from which he retired in February 2011 . He was originally appointed chairman of the Road Transportation Safety Board and the Rail Incident Board by minister Tjerk Westerterp . Following the Bijlmer and Hercules disasters , a need was felt in The Netherlands for a single body to investigate all transportation-related incidents ; the Transportation Safety Council ( Dutch : '' Raad voor de Transportveiligheid '' ) was created , which incorporated the earlier Road Transportation Safety and Rail Incident Boards and also had Van Vollenhoven as chairman . Van Vollenhoven felt , however , that the country should have a single board to investigate '' all '' safety-related issues ; lobbying on his part finally convinced the government to transform the Transportation Safety Council into a general Safety Board , of which Van Vollenhoven was made the first chairman
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