Missing chevron sign on approach to bend at Leese Hill
Staffordshire County Council received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 16 Sept 2013 and 15 Nov 2018.
They came from 1 coroner. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from Staffordshire County Council was found for the earlier reports.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“Miss [name redacted] received fatal injuries in a road traffic collision on the B5013 at Willslock nr Uttoxeter on 11 May 2013. She was driving in a southerly direction and crashed on a bend.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Staffordshire County Council was found for this report.
- 5 years 2 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
“The location is the bend close to the Leese Hill. | am aware of at least one other fatality at the site. There is a sign for the bend, a slow sign in the road for the bend and chevrons and marker posts at the bend.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:bendroad
Staffordshire County Council responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“These works will be completed at the earliest opportunity”
Stated timescale: earliest opportunity
- All reports to Staffordshire County Council
Each row is one judged link between an earlier and a later report. Open a row to read both quotes, found word for word in the originals.
2013 → 2018Kendall Chadwick5 years 2 months after Rachael Dallison · same coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports concern safety at the same bend on the B5013 near Willslock, focusing on the adequacy of chevron signage. The earlier report notes a missing chevron on the approach, while the later report highlights dirty chevron boards and maintenance issues.
Rachael Dallison · 16 Sept 2013
“Miss [name redacted] received fatal injuries in a road traffic collision on the B5013 at Willslock nr Uttoxeter on 11 May 2013. She was driving in a southerly direction and crashed on a bend.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Kendall Chadwick · 15 Nov 2018
“The location is the bend close to the Leese Hill. | am aware of at least one other fatality at the site. There is a sign for the bend, a slow sign in the road for the bend and chevrons and marker posts at the bend.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Staffordshire County Council was found for this report.
Stated action · timescale: earliest opportunity
“These works will be completed at the earliest opportunity”
- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Staffordshire County Council at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 → 2018 | 0.81 | 0.23 | Closely related · 0.85 | same |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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