Lack of barrier to waterway
Department for Transport received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 26 Jul 2024 and 6 May 2025.
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.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
First warning
Jennifer and Marion Bunyan↗
26 Jul 2024 · David Heming · Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
“speed limit should be reduced significantly as a risk reduction measure - some areas have adopted 20 mph on some sections of road.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department for Transport responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
- 9 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.78 · moderatea different coroner
“Although the speed of the road was reduced by Dorset Council on 11th October 2024 from 70mph to 60mph, I have concerns around the layout of the road and the number of collisions in the area, and that there could be future deaths that occur.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:speedroadreduced
Department for Transport responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
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2024 → 2025Charlotte Avis9 months after Jennifer and Marion Bunyan · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.78 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.78 · moderateBoth reports highlight ongoing risks on specific road sections where vehicle departures lead to fatalities, emphasizing insufficient speed controls and road layout issues.
Jennifer and Marion Bunyan · 26 Jul 2024
“speed limit should be reduced significantly as a risk reduction measure - some areas have adopted 20 mph on some sections of road.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Charlotte Avis · 6 May 2025
“Although the speed of the road was reduced by Dorset Council on 11th October 2024 from 70mph to 60mph, I have concerns around the layout of the road and the number of collisions in the area, and that there could be future deaths that occur.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
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No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
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 Department for Transport 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 → 2025 | 0.53 | 0.16 | Closely related · 0.78 | different |
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