Inadequate street lighting creating dark areas
Department for Transport received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 20 Feb 2015 and 17 Feb 2020.
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.
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“(2) At night the level of street lighting is low, the lamp standards producing pools of light which have the effect of leaving contrasting areas of the carriageway in relative darkness;”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department for Transport responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 5 years later
Raised again · 1st time
James Anthony Lewis and Lorraine Molyneaux↗
17 Feb 2020 · Rachel Griffin · Dorset
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner“I further request that the street lighting between Mountbatten roundabout and Clock Garage Roundabout is reviewed in relation to the amount of lighting and to ensure that the current lighting is working.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:streetlighting
Department for Transport responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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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 → 2020James Anthony Lewis and Lorraine Molyneaux5 years after Maria Nekrasova · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports identify inadequate street lighting creating dark areas that endanger pedestrians.
Maria Nekrasova · 20 Feb 2015
“(2) At night the level of street lighting is low, the lamp standards producing pools of light which have the effect of leaving contrasting areas of the carriageway in relative darkness;”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ James Anthony Lewis and Lorraine Molyneaux · 17 Feb 2020
“I further request that the street lighting between Mountbatten roundabout and Clock Garage Roundabout is reviewed in relation to the amount of lighting and to ensure that the current lighting is working.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“TfL will be carrying out a detailed investigation of the lighting levels and the distribution of light over the bridge by August 2015”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 → 2020 | 0.72 | 0.28 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
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