Road lighting failure on motorway leading to visibility issues
National Highways received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 24 Feb 2014 and 12 Nov 2019.
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 National Highways was found for the earlier reports.
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“the current road lighting system for that section of the M65 Motorway was not 1 operating during the hours of darkness, having been decommissioned in March 2011, as part of”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from National Highways was found for this report.
- 5 years 9 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.93 · higha different coroner
“the lack of lighting on this section of the motorway was a contributory factor to the Second Series of Collisions; the evidence at inquest was that this section of the motorway remains unlit at night”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:lightingsectionmotorway
National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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2014 → 2019Costel Stancu5 years 9 months after Mark Burgess · different coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.93 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.93 · highBoth reports identify the absence of road lighting on a motorway section as a safety hazard contributing to collisions. They describe the same mechanism—drivers unable to see debris or obstacles in darkness leading to secondary crashes.
Mark Burgess · 24 Feb 2014
“the current road lighting system for that section of the M65 Motorway was not 1 operating during the hours of darkness, having been decommissioned in March 2011, as part of”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Costel Stancu · 12 Nov 2019
“the lack of lighting on this section of the motorway was a contributory factor to the Second Series of Collisions; the evidence at inquest was that this section of the motorway remains unlit at night”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from National Highways was found for this report.
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 → 2019 | 0.78 | 0.21 | Identical · 0.93 | different |
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