"Peter Goelz, a former NTSB managing director, said the crash would be "a watershed event for the limousine industry", as he predicted that the lack of or failure to use seat belts would be cited as a major cause for the loss of life in the accident and rules would be changed to require them.The board's preliminary report, however, noted that the seats added to the vehicle "did" have lap belts but not whether they were in use at the time of the accident.