‘There are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing’: Pete Buttigieg appears to downplay Ohio disaster – as Republican shows ‘chemicals’ bubbling to surface of a creek

(Source: The Daily Mail)

• ‘While this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1000 cases a year of a train derailing,’ Buttigieg said 
• ‘We’re going to be paying very close attention to the findings that NTSB [National Transportation Safety Board] comes back,’ he said
• Sen. Manchin is hitting back against the Biden administration for what they see as a delayed response to the derailment

Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg said that roughly 1,000 trains derail per year just like the one in East Palestine, Ohio last week. 

‘While this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1000 cases a year of a train derailing. Obviously they have levels of severity,’ he said in a clip posted by Yahoo News on Thursday. 

‘Oh I feel much better now,’ Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., shot back sarcastically on Twitter to the video. 

Buttigieg went on: ‘Now this train was subject to certain enhanced requirements because of the hazardous materials on board, but obviously none of that prevented what happened.’