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Garry CLARKSON · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 31 Jan 2019•East Riding and Hull

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Concerns
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Recipients
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Responses found
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Stated actions
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Concerns raised1

  1. Accident blackspot on the Westfield Lane carriageway near Hook
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Actions described in response An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.2

  1. Action

    Implement highway safety works, including resurfacing, extending the 30mph limit, and installing additional route signing and chevron boards.

    Stated by East Riding of Yorkshire CouncilStated completedThe respondent said that this action was complete when they made their response on 31 January 2019.
  2. Action

    Monitor the route’s traffic flow, vehicle speeds, and injury collisions.

    Stated by East Riding of Yorkshire CouncilStated completedThe respondent said that this action was complete when they made their response on 31 January 2019.

Respondent positions A position is what a recipient says about a concern when it does not describe a specific action.2

  1. Position

    Previously implemented highway works reduced collisions and casualties; therefore no further works are proposed, while the route remains monitored.

    Stated by East Riding of Yorkshire CouncilExisting arrangements considered sufficientThe respondent said that existing arrangements were sufficient, so no further action was needed.

Source evidence

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Accident blackspot on the Westfield Lane carriageway near Hook

Wider context from the report

“An Inquest has been opened but has not been concluded thus far in relationship to these tragic events. Nevertheless, I have been contacted on four occasions by Counsellor Keith Moore who sits on the local Council in Goole. He has brought to my attention that there have been three fatalities on the Westfield Lane carriageway near Hook and at the end of December 2018 there were two further accidents which thankfully were not fatal. In view of Regulation 28 philosophy for the Prevention of Future Deaths, I feel it is imperative that I take action given that Mr Clarkson's death was not the first to have occurred in this vicinity which clearly must be regarded as an accident blackspot. ”

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Implement highway safety works, including resurfacing, extending the 30mph limit, and installing additional route signing and chevron boards.

Verbatim wording from the response

“Each year, the Council carries out a programme of highway engineering works prioritised on where injury collisions have been recorded. In the five years prior to 2008, there were twelve recorded injury collisions (comprising one fatal, two serious and nine slight injury collisions) on Hook Lane/Westfield Lane/Church Lane, Based on this injury collision record works were carried out in 2008/9 along the length of the road including surface dressing and inlays, an extension of the 30mph speed limit from Hook to incorporate the double bends and new signing along the route including chevron boards for the double bends on Church Lane as shown in photograph G:”

Source location

Response from East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Page 6 · response
Published 31 January 2019

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Monitor the route’s traffic flow, vehicle speeds, and injury collisions.

Verbatim wording from the response

“Since that time, we have monitored recorded injury collisions, traffic flow and speed. Injury collisions have reduced and some 300 vehicles use the road each day, generally well within the speed limit, with an 85%ile, or typical speed, of just over 47mph. In the five year period following the works carried out in 2008/09, there were four collisions (all slight injury collisions).”

Source location

Response from East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Page 6 · response
Published 31 January 2019

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How this respondent position was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Previously implemented highway works reduced collisions and casualties; therefore no further works are proposed, while the route remains monitored.

Verbatim wording from the response

“The Council does not propose to take any further action or to carry out further works to Westfield Lane or Hook Lane for the reasons set out below.”

Source location

Response from East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Page 6 · response
Published 31 January 2019

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How this respondent position was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Available evidence does not show the site is an accident blackspot or that further highway improvements would have prevented the 2018 fatality.

Verbatim wording from the response

“To bring the figures up to date; in the ten years before the works thirty-two people were injured in collisions. In the ten years since the changes nineteen people have been injured, a decrease of 41%. Of those nineteen, four were injured due to drivers being taken ill at the wheel. This period of time includes the accidents set out above that occurred in April 2016 and November 2018 as well as the 2018 fatal accident the subject of your inquiry. The overall reduction in collisions and casualties since the works would not indicate that further works need to be undertaken on Hook Lane/Westfield Lane/Church Lane. Overall, this authority’s targeted action has resulted in a reduction in the number of collisions on Hook Lane/Westfield Lane. We have no evidence that Westfield Lane in the vicinity of the collision which is the subject of your investigation is a "black spot".”

Source location

Response from East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Page 6 · response
Published 31 January 2019

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