Inadequate signage for right‑turn movements at junction
National Highways received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 18 Feb 2015 and 1 Oct 2015.
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 0 specific actions.
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“This is the latest in several serious incidents at this junction, three of which have been fatal within the last five years.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
- 7 months later
Raised again · 1st time
Kenneth McCurdy and Mary McCurdy↗
1 Oct 2015 · Crispin Oliver · County Durham and Darlington
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner“There is no signage at the gap in the central reservation for vehicles travelling west to tum right towards Hulands Quarry to indicate that it is no entry to vehicles travelling east for any form of manoeuvre.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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2015 → 2015Kenneth McCurdy and Mary McCurdy7 months after Keri Holdsworth · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight inadequate signage or controls that fail to prevent unsafe right‑turn movements at a junction. The earlier report notes repeated fatal crashes due to unregulated right turns, while the later report points out missing signage that should prohibit those turns.
Keri Holdsworth · 18 Feb 2015
“This is the latest in several serious incidents at this junction, three of which have been fatal within the last five years.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Kenneth McCurdy and Mary McCurdy · 1 Oct 2015
“There is no signage at the gap in the central reservation for vehicles travelling west to tum right towards Hulands Quarry to indicate that it is no entry to vehicles travelling east for any form of manoeuvre.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
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No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
- 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 National Highways 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 → 2015 | 0.68 | 0.25 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
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