Nicholas Stocks
27 May 2015 · Coroner Mary Burke · West Yorkshire (West)
The coroner's concerns
1. unreported road safety concerns
“I am concerned that the system that was in place to ensure that matters of concern identified by Officers of West Yorkshire Police who attend the scene of Road Traffic Collision in November 2011 were not fully reported to Kirklees Council”
2. missing Give Way sign
“On the afternoon of the 27th September 2012 following the earlier road traffic incident, a Police Officer identified the need for a repair to the Give Way sign which had been demolished”
3. unresponsive customer service
“I would also ask you to liaise with the relevant departments of Kirklees Council in order to carry out investigations to determine which departments of Kirklees Council was contacted on the afternoon of 27th September 2012 to report the damage to the give way sign”
4. inconsistent road inspections
“I have concerns with the regard to the wide variation of how road inspections are undertaken by your Safety Inspectors”
5. missing road markings
“I was concerned that neither of the two Safety Inspectors who gave evidence, considered that the lack of road markings at the junction of Barnsley Road and Dry Hill Lane, and upon Dry Hill Lane itself”
6. delayed risk assessment
“I would also ask you to liaise with West Yorkshire Police in respect of the comments made in the West Yorkshire Police Section of this report concerning risk assessments when a road traffic collision occurs and West Yorkshire Police are in attendance and identify the need for repair works to be undertaken”
Responses
2015-0200-Response-by-West-Yorkshire-Police.pdf ↗· West Yorkshire Police
Stated action · end of August 2015
“propose that the above actions will be completed by the end of August 2015.”