Missing pedestrian crossing on busy ring road
National Highways received 3 coroners' reports about this hazard between 26 Oct 2015 and 8 Jun 2026.
They came from 3 different coroners in 3 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 2 times after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 2 earlier reports, stating 0 specific actions.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“There is no pedestrian crossing at, or in the vicinity of, Ramshead Approach in Leeds. The Ring Road (A6120) is a busy road in that particular area and is frequently”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 1 year 10 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“The deceased had alighted from a bus and was crossing the very busy A449 dual carriageway at an uncontrolled pedestrian crossing point. The crossing is :”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:crossingbusypedestrian
No published response from National Highways was found for this report.
- 8 years 10 months later
Raised again · 2nd time
Charlotte Saunders↗
8 Jun 2026 · Lindsey Tonks · Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner“There are no pedestrian guardrails either side of the carriageway at what appears to be a primary location used by people for their speed and convenience, to avoid the need to walk further to use the pedestrian crossings”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to National Highways
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 → 2017Frederick Dudley1 year 10 months after Neil Garry · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight unsafe pedestrian crossings lacking adequate protection or control measures. They differ in location and specific contributing factors such as absent crossing versus uncontrolled crossing on a bend with visibility issues.
Neil Garry · 26 Oct 2015
“There is no pedestrian crossing at, or in the vicinity of, Ramshead Approach in Leeds. The Ring Road (A6120) is a busy road”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Frederick Dudley · 16 Aug 2017
“The deceased had alighted from a bus and was crossing the very busy A449 dual carriageway at an uncontrolled pedestrian crossing point. The crossing is :”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ 2015 → 2026Charlotte Saunders10 years 7 months after Neil Garry · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight the absence of safe pedestrian facilities on a busy ring road, leading pedestrians to cross unsafely. The earlier report notes a missing crossing; the later report notes missing guardrails at a commonly used crossing point.
Neil Garry · 26 Oct 2015
“There is no pedestrian crossing at, or in the vicinity of, Ramshead Approach in Leeds. The Ring Road (A6120) is a busy road in that particular area and is frequently”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Charlotte Saunders · 8 Jun 2026
“There are no pedestrian guardrails either side of the carriageway at what appears to be a primary location used by people for their speed and convenience, to avoid the need to walk further to use the pedestrian crossings”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 → 2017 | 0.63 | 0.19 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
| 2015 → 2026 | 0.71 | 0.22 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
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