Staggered A16/B1166 junction design hazard
Department for Transport received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 31 Mar 2016 and 7 Mar 2019.
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 2 specific actions.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“The staggered junction of the A16 with the B1166 is part of the Crowland Bypass which was opened in 2010.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department for Transport responded, stating 2 specific actions.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
“The relevant team have been informed of these concerns”
“An assessment of all options available to the Trust to improve communication with community prescribing agencies by the Deputy Chief Medical Officer. [name redacted] included sharing of confidential patient information in a secure manner.”
- 2 years 11 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.95 · higha different coroner
“The court heard evidence from a number of current regular road users describing the 1 layout of the A16/B1166 junction as”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department for Transport responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Department for Transport
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.
2016 → 2019Matthew Bilby2 years 11 months after Sheila Slater · different coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.95 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.95 · highBoth reports identify the staggered A16/B1166 junction as unsafe due to its design leading to multiple fatalities and injuries. They agree that reconfiguring the junction as a roundabout would mitigate the risk.
Sheila Slater · 31 Mar 2016
“The staggered junction of the A16 with the B1166 is part of the Crowland Bypass which was opened in 2010.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Matthew Bilby · 7 Mar 2019
“The court heard evidence from a number of current regular road users describing the 1 layout of the A16/B1166 junction as”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action
“The relevant team have been informed of these concerns”
Stated action
“An assessment of all options available to the Trust to improve communication with community prescribing agencies by the Deputy Chief Medical Officer. [name redacted] included sharing of confidential patient information in a secure manner.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 → 2019 | 0.73 | 0.49 | Identical · 0.95 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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