Undulation in road surface leading to loss of control
Worcestershire County Council received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 22 Jul 2015 and 5 Nov 2018.
They came from 2 different coroners. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
No published response from Worcestershire County Council was found for the earlier reports.
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“identified an "undulation" in the road surface. It is likely that this caused the "wobble" seen by the witness immediately prior to Mr [name redacted] losing control of his vehicle”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ No published response from Worcestershire County Council was found for this report.
- 3 years 3 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“(2) The traffic collision investigator's report (attached) indicates that the standard of the road surface has for 3 years bean below that specified by the highways agency.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:roadsurface
Worcestershire County Council responded.Response (PDF) ↗
- All reports to Worcestershire 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 → 2018Gareth Jones3 years 3 months after James McGeown · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports identify a defect in the road surface – an undulation or sub‑standard condition – as a factor that can cause loss of vehicle control.
James McGeown · 22 Jul 2015
“identified an "undulation" in the road surface. It is likely that this caused the "wobble" seen by the witness immediately prior to Mr [name redacted] losing control of his vehicle”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Gareth Jones · 5 Nov 2018
“(2) The traffic collision investigator's report (attached) indicates that the standard of the road surface has for 3 years bean below that specified by the highways agency.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No published response from Worcestershire County Council was found for this report.
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 Worcestershire 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 → 2018 | 0.69 | 0.24 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
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