Inadequate road surface and visibility at farm entrance
West Sussex County Council received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 23 Jan 2015 and 5 Jul 2019.
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 1 specific action.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“The A285 is an ancient rural road and it does not meet the design standards of a modern road.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ West Sussex County Council responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗
“the County Council does not consider there to be any grounds to carry out any works to extend the area of asphalt surface further into the bridleway. The”
Web search (Tavily): No evidence found either way
West Sussex Rights of Way Management Plan 2018-2028 ↗- 4 years 5 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderatea different coroner
“There is a speed limit sign approximately 350 metres back from the bend as you travel south.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ West Sussex County Council responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to West Sussex 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.
2015 → 2019Keith Battman4 years 5 months after Hilary Moock and Janice Taylor · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderate
Closely relatedConfidence 0.80 · moderateBoth reports identify safety deficiencies on the A285 rural road that increase collision risk. The earlier report focuses on inadequate road surface and visibility at a farm entrance, while the later report calls for improved signage and overall road improvements.
Hilary Moock and Janice Taylor · 23 Jan 2015
“The A285 is an ancient rural road and it does not meet the design standards of a modern road.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Keith Battman · 5 Jul 2019
“There is a speed limit sign approximately 350 metres back from the bend as you travel south.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“the County Council does not consider there to be any grounds to carry out any works to extend the area of asphalt surface further into the bridleway. The”
Stated action
“the County Council does not consider there to be any grounds to carry out any works to extend the area of asphalt surface further into the bridleway. The”
What happened next: No evidence found either way
The council's plan mentions maintaining rights of way but does not specify any extension of asphalt surfacing into the bridleway.
“The Plan sets out the Council's Vision and Objectives and outlines the actions we will need to focus on during the next ten years. Ensuring visitors and local people alike have the opportunity to enjoy the beauty and tranquillity of large parts of the West Sussex countryside is important.”
No evidence found does not mean the action did not happen.
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 West Sussex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 → 2019 | 0.72 | 0.18 | Closely related · 0.80 | different |
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