Excessive speed on b5017 in populated area
Staffordshire County Council received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 14 Aug 2014 and 8 Oct 2019.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 2 specific actions.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“The lack of speed restrictions in an apparently highly populated area.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Staffordshire County Council responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“we will make available the supply of reflective vests in their accommodation and part of our terms of employment and they will be recommended to wear them at night in walking on the A518 and include this in our induction, recruitment process going forward for 2015 as all our seasonal staff are departing now”
Stated timescale: 2015
- 5 years 2 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderatea different coroner
“there does appear to be a genuine continuing concern about the volume and speed of traffic on this road”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Staffordshire County Council responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“Following the collision in January, as is the process following all fatal road traffic collisions; the collision history at this location was examined. The search concluded that no personal injury collisions had been recorded within 300m of where the fatal collision took place within the latest three years of complete data that we had available at the time. When the search area was widened, two slight personal injury collisions have been recorded on the stretch of B5017 between Five Ways Island,”
- 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.
2014 → 2019Steffan Evans5 years 2 months after Olegs Sulaimonovs · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth reports highlight excessive vehicle speed as a safety issue on the same road. The later report adds concern about traffic volume but retains the core speed problem.
Olegs Sulaimonovs · 14 Aug 2014
“The lack of speed restrictions in an apparently highly populated area.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Steffan Evans · 8 Oct 2019
“there does appear to be a genuine continuing concern about the volume and speed of traffic on this road”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action · timescale: 2015
“we will make available the supply of reflective vests in their accommodation and part of our terms of employment and they will be recommended to wear them at night in walking on the A518 and include this in our induction, recruitment process going forward for 2015 as all our seasonal staff are departing now”
Stated action
“Following the collision in January, as is the process following all fatal road traffic collisions; the collision history at this location was examined. The search concluded that no personal injury collisions had been recorded within 300m of where the fatal collision took place within the latest three years of complete data that we had available at the time. When the search area was widened, two slight personal injury collisions have been recorded on the stretch of B5017 between Five Ways Island,”
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 → 2019 | 0.63 | 0.17 | Closely related · 0.80 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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