Excessive speed limit on bridge and junction
National Highways received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 11 Jun 2015 and 22 Feb 2017.
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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“A review of the safety of the Sheppey Road Bridge published in February 2015 has concluded that a combination of the geometry of the bridge affecting the forward visibility available to drivers and the high speeds of vehicles travelling over the bridge which has a 70 mph limit impacts on the safety of the bridge.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 1 year 8 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderatea different coroner
“(2)The speed limit in the section of the A36 either side of Branch Road should be reduced so as to improve the safety of drivers both those on A36 and those emerging from Branch Road.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:limitRoadsafetydrivers
National Highways responded.Response (PDF) ↗
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2015 → 2017Margaret Jones1 year 8 months after Deborah Roberts · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth reports identify that an excessively high speed limit contributes to collision risk at a specific location. The earlier case concerns a bridge with limited visibility; the later case concerns a junction where drivers merge onto a high‑speed road.
Deborah Roberts · 11 Jun 2015
“A review of the safety of the Sheppey Road Bridge published in February 2015 has concluded that a combination of the geometry of the bridge affecting the forward visibility available to drivers and the high speeds of vehicles travelling over the bridge which has a 70 mph limit impacts on the safety of the bridge.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Margaret Jones · 22 Feb 2017
“(2)The speed limit in the section of the A36 either side of Branch Road should be reduced so as to improve the safety of drivers both those on A36 and those emerging from Branch Road.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
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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 | 0.67 | 0.24 | Closely related · 0.80 | different |
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