Pedestrians crossing uncontrolled near bus stops
Department for Transport received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 17 Feb 2020 and 5 Nov 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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Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“people are regularly seen to cross the road at the location where this collision occurred where there is no crossing.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department for Transport responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- 4 years 9 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderatea different coroner
“There are no pedestrian traffic lights, no demand button, no sound signals.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department for Transport responded.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗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.
2020 → 2024Terence Gillard4 years 9 months after James Anthony Lewis and Lorraine Molyneaux · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth reports highlight inadequate pedestrian crossing provisions that leave walkers exposed to fast-moving traffic. The earlier case concerns missing formal crossings near bus stops; the later case concerns an uncontrolled crossing lacking signals or controls.
James Anthony Lewis and Lorraine Molyneaux · 17 Feb 2020
“people are regularly seen to cross the road at the location where this collision occurred where there is no crossing.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Terence Gillard · 5 Nov 2024
“There are no pedestrian traffic lights, no demand button, no sound signals.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 → 2024 | 0.75 | 0.10 | Closely related · 0.80 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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