Insufficient road signage and warning signs at junction
National Highways received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 28 Apr 2014 and 22 Feb 2017.
They came from 1 coroner. 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 1 specific action.
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Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“The road signs including carriageway markings should be reviewed and improved so as to provide greater warning to drivers as to the severity of the approaching bends.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ National Highways responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The salient proposais in the Hartley Bends locality were as follows:”
Stated timescale: early 2014
- 2 years 10 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
“The road signs including carriageway markings should be reviewed and improved so as to provide greater warning to drivers as to the risk from this junction.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:roadsignsincludingcarriagewaymarkingsreviewed
National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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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 → 2017Margaret Jones2 years 10 months after Yasmin Richards · same coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports call for reviewing and improving road signs and carriageway markings to give drivers better warning. They differ in that the earlier focuses on bend severity while the later focuses on junction risk.
Yasmin Richards · 28 Apr 2014
“The road signs including carriageway markings should be reviewed and improved so as to provide greater warning to drivers as to the severity of the approaching bends.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Margaret Jones · 22 Feb 2017
“The road signs including carriageway markings should be reviewed and improved so as to provide greater warning to drivers as to the risk from this junction.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action · timescale: early 2014
“The salient proposais in the Hartley Bends locality were as follows:”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 → 2017 | 0.81 | 0.63 | Closely related · 0.90 | same |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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