Stopping trains for unwell trespasser on line
RSSB received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 21 Nov 2013 and 13 Sept 2016.
They came from 1 coroner 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 1 specific action.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“The Rule book be amended to require that trains stop, (signals are set to danger), when a person who is identified as being unwell or there is reason to believe might be unwell is trespassing on the line.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ RSSB responded, stating 1 specific action.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
“The LAS have reviewed the matter and I hope that you find the following explanation helpful: Purpose of needle chest decompression Needle Chest Decompression forms an important part of the management of chest trauma in the pre hospital environment by paramedic staff.”
- 2 years 10 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
“That the RSSB Rule Book allows trains to be stopped only in circumstances where that person may cause damage to a train, but does not allow for trains to be stopped where the person may be in danger form a train.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Repeated from the earlier report:RuleBooktrainspersondanger
The most recent report. A response may not be due or published yet.
- All reports to RSSB
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.
2013 → 2016Lauris Kodors2 years 10 months after Daniel Maurice McMahon · same coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports concern the RSSB Rule Book's provisions for stopping trains when a person is on the line. The earlier report focuses on stopping for an unwell trespasser, while the later report focuses on stopping when the person is in danger from a train.
Daniel Maurice McMahon · 21 Nov 2013
“The Rule book be amended to require that trains stop, (signals are set to danger), when a person who is identified as being unwell or there is reason to believe might be unwell is trespassing on the line.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Lauris Kodors · 13 Sept 2016
“That the RSSB Rule Book allows trains to be stopped only in circumstances where that person may cause damage to a train, but does not allow for trains to be stopped where the person may be in danger form a train.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗
No specific action could be extracted with a verified quote.
Stated action
“The LAS have reviewed the matter and I hope that you find the following explanation helpful: Purpose of needle chest decompression Needle Chest Decompression forms an important part of the management of chest trauma in the pre hospital environment by paramedic staff.”
No published response from RSSB was found for this report. It is the most recent report, so a response may not be due or published yet.
- 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 RSSB 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 → 2016 | 0.74 | 0.20 | Closely related · 0.90 | same |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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