Raised in 2019.
Raised again.
And again.
No hard shoulder on smart motorways leading to unsafe stops. Seven coroners, five years. None of the later reports cited the first. The space below is time, to scale.The space on the right is time, to scale.
- Oct 2019 · Birmingham and SolihullFirst warning
- 1 month later: Nov 2019 · Birmingham and Solihull
- 14 months later: Jan 2021 · South Yorkshire West
- 1 month later: Mar 2021 · Bedfordshire and Luton
- 13 months later: Mar 2022 · Berkshire
- 13 months later: Apr 2023 · Northamptonshire
- 22 months later: Feb 2025 · Staffordshire
- later reports don't cite
- 99%later reports don't cite
- different coroner
- 85%different coroner
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What you are looking at
- When a death reveals a risk to others, the coroner writes to the organisation that can act. This is a Prevention of Future Deaths report.
- The organisation has 56 days to reply with what it will do.
- Years later, a similar death comes before a different coroner, who has no practical way to know the warning was given before.
Recurance read all 6,454 reports since 2013 and found 666 concerns raised again with the same organisation, each shown in the exact words of both reports.
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A 2023 coroner's report about a death on a smart motorway, sent to National Highways. Nemotron reads it, searches every earlier concern sent to National Highways, judges which ones are the same hazard, and checks each quote against the original report.
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Find and read 130 earlier concerns sent to National Highways, and compare each one.
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3 earlier warnings found
15 Nov 2019 · Birmingham and Solihull
“when a hard shoulder is used as a running lane”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗18 Apr 2023 · this report
“THERE WAS NOWHERE FOR THE DRIVER OF THE FIRST VEHICLE TO PARK SAFELY”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗More repeated warnings
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