Inadequate warning signage at junction
Cumbria County Council received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 6 Sept 2017 and 3 Feb 2022.
They came from 2 different coroners. 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.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“(1) The current warning signage on approach to the junction from a north westerly direction is inadequate.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Cumbria County Council responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The scheme to introduce the high friction surfacing, improved road marking and signage is currently out to consultation with the police, the Parish Council and the local County Councillor and subject to agreement, the measures will be introduced as soon as practicable.”
Stated timescale: as soon as practicable
- 4 years 5 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · higha different coroner
“2) The lack of appropriately positioned signage, warning approaching drivers of the possibility of vehicles crossing the carriageway from the café.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:signagewarning
Cumbria County Council responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Cumbria 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.
2017 → 2022Stephen Cloudsdale4 years 5 months after Jeffery Matthews · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.85 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.85 · highBoth reports highlight insufficient warning signage to alert drivers of hazards at a junction. The earlier report cites inadequate signage from a north‑westerly approach, while the later report notes missing signage warning of vehicles crossing from a café.
Jeffery Matthews · 6 Sept 2017
“(1) The current warning signage on approach to the junction from a north westerly direction is inadequate.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stephen Cloudsdale · 3 Feb 2022
“2) The lack of appropriately positioned signage, warning approaching drivers of the possibility of vehicles crossing the carriageway from the café.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“The scheme to introduce the high friction surfacing, improved road marking and signage is currently out to consultation with the police, the Parish Council and the local County Councillor and subject to agreement, the measures will be introduced as soon as practicable.”
Stated action · timescale: as soon as practicable
“The scheme to introduce the high friction surfacing, improved road marking and signage is currently out to consultation with the police, the Parish Council and the local County Councillor and subject to agreement, the measures will be introduced as soon as practicable.”
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 Cumbria 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 → 2022 | 0.81 | 0.13 | Closely related · 0.85 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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