Missing front-facing mirrors on older lorries
Department for Transport received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 28 May 2014 and 18 Jan 2016.
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 2 specific actions.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“I am concerned that the regulations that have been introduced requiring lorries to have forward facing mirrors are not retrospective, hence there are a large number of lorries on the road which do not have this facility.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Department for Transport responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The Department has published a Strategic Framework for Road Safety, which sets out general safety measures.”
- 1 year 8 months laterIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“Due to the lack of Class VI front mirrors on large goods vehicles registered before the 26”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:mirrorslarge
Department for Transport responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“The Department is also working with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), Transport for London (TfL) and other stakeholders on HGV safety. This activity includes the development and promotion of safer lorry designs.”
- All reports to Department for Transport
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.
2014 → 2016Norah Fairhurst1 year 8 months after Arnold Soulsby · different coronerIdentical hazardConfidence 0.90 · high
Identical hazardConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight that older large goods vehicles lack required front‑facing mirrors, creating a blind spot for pedestrians and cyclists. They call for making the mirror requirement retrospective to prevent collisions.
Arnold Soulsby · 28 May 2014
“I am concerned that the regulations that have been introduced requiring lorries to have forward facing mirrors are not retrospective, hence there are a large number of lorries on the road which do not have this facility.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Norah Fairhurst · 18 Jan 2016
“Due to the lack of Class VI front mirrors on large goods vehicles registered before the 26”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
Stated action
“The Department has published a Strategic Framework for Road Safety, which sets out general safety measures.”
Stated action
“The Department is also working with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), Transport for London (TfL) and other stakeholders on HGV safety. This activity includes the development and promotion of safer lorry designs.”
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 → 2016 | 0.79 | 0.13 | Identical · 0.90 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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