Missing road markings and signage at junction
National Highways received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 22 Feb 2017 and 27 Aug 2024.
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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“(4) Whilst not factors in this collision appropriate repairs should be made to the high friction surface and road markings in the vicinity of the junction.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 7 years 6 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderatea different coroner
“During the inquest I heard that as [the deceased] approached the location of the collision via the slip road that there were no road markings or signs displayed to advise on appropriate speed or road curvature ahead.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:collisionroadmarkingsappropriate
National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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2017 → 2024Mason Portman7 years 6 months after Margaret Jones · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth reports highlight insufficient or missing road markings and signage at a junction/slip road. The earlier report calls for repairs to road markings, while the later notes their absence entirely.
Margaret Jones · 22 Feb 2017
“(4) Whilst not factors in this collision appropriate repairs should be made to the high friction surface and road markings in the vicinity of the junction.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Mason Portman · 27 Aug 2024
“During the inquest I heard that as [the deceased] approached the location of the collision via the slip road that there were no road markings or signs displayed to advise on appropriate speed or road curvature ahead.”
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 → 2024 | 0.66 | 0.20 | Closely related · 0.80 | different |
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