Pedestrians crossing unlit dual carriageway at 60mph speed limit
Durham County Council received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 3 Dec 2019 and 10 Jul 2020.
They came from 2 different coroners. 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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“very dark at night, being unaffected by ambient illumination; - without street lighting”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Durham County Council responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 7 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderatea different coroner
“unlit dual carriageway subject to the national speed limit that runs alongside a housing estate and an industrial estate in Belmont.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Durham County Council responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Durham 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.
2019 → 2020Bartosz Kusiak7 months after David Moore · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth reports highlight that an unlit stretch of road subject to the national speed limit creates a risk because pedestrians cannot be seen far enough ahead for vehicles to stop safely.
David Moore · 3 Dec 2019
“very dark at night, being unaffected by ambient illumination; - without street lighting”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Bartosz Kusiak · 10 Jul 2020
“unlit dual carriageway subject to the national speed limit that runs alongside a housing estate and an industrial estate in Belmont.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
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 Durham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 → 2020 | 0.75 | 0.21 | Closely related · 0.80 | different |
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