Inadequate bridge safety measures leading to suicides
National Highways received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 10 Jan 2020 and 17 Oct 2022.
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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“(1) Scammonden Bridge is a locally notorious location for suicides. (2) Reports to prevent future deaths have been made to Kirklees Council and Highways”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 2 years 9 months later
Raised again · 1st time
Seth Thind↗
17 Oct 2022 · Christopher Wilkinson · Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner“At the incident location there is little if anything by way of safety measures that would prevent anyone from being able to climb over, around or on top of the side railings of the bridge or to prevent them from jumping from the bridge to the carriageway.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:locationpreventbridge
National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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2020 → 2022Seth Thind2 years 9 months after Muhammed Wajid · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight that suicides occur by jumping from bridges because adequate preventive measures are missing. The later report adds detail about absent barriers, signage, CCTV and crisis call points while the earlier note only identifies the bridge as a notorious suicide site.
Muhammed Wajid · 10 Jan 2020
“(1) Scammonden Bridge is a locally notorious location for suicides. (2) Reports to prevent future deaths have been made to Kirklees Council and Highways”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Seth Thind · 17 Oct 2022
“At the incident location there is little if anything by way of safety measures that would prevent anyone from being able to climb over, around or on top of the side railings of the bridge or to prevent them from jumping from the bridge to the carriageway.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
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- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 → 2022 | 0.65 | 0.27 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
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