60mph speed limit in residential area with petrol station and hotel
Staffordshire County Council received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 29 Oct 2015 and 13 Aug 2024.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from Staffordshire County Council was found for the earlier reports.
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Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“During the course of the evidence my attention was drawn to the fact that the road is only subject to the statutory limit of 6Omph whilst it has residential properties at places along its length, a busy petrol station and large fay-by southbound and a busy hotel northbound on joining the A519 upon leaving the M6 at junction 15.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Staffordshire County Council was found for this report.
- 8 years 9 months later
Raised again · 1st time
Kial Thurman↗
13 Aug 2024 · Nicholas Walker · Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderatea different coroner“The rural, unlit road is governed by the national speed limit of 60 mph and narrows in both directions at the point of the bridge.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:roadlimit
Staffordshire County Council responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“A site visit with representatives from Staffordshire County Council Highways has taken place to review the layout of the road and consider the points raised through the PFD report submitted.”
- All reports to Staffordshire 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.
2015 → 2024Kial Thurman8 years 9 months after Florence Lowe · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth reports state that a 60 mph speed limit is inappropriate for the road environment and poses a risk of future deaths. They differ in the specific road and surrounding features discussed.
Florence Lowe · 29 Oct 2015
“During the course of the evidence my attention was drawn to the fact that the road is only subject to the statutory limit of 6Omph whilst it has residential properties at places along its length, a busy petrol station and large fay-by southbound and a busy hotel northbound on joining the A519 upon leaving the M6 at junction 15.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Kial Thurman · 13 Aug 2024
“The rural, unlit road is governed by the national speed limit of 60 mph and narrows in both directions at the point of the bridge.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Staffordshire County Council was found for this report.
Stated action
“A site visit with representatives from Staffordshire County Council Highways has taken place to review the layout of the road and consider the points raised through the PFD report submitted.”
- 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 Staffordshire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 → 2024 | 0.66 | 0.15 | Closely related · 0.80 | different |
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