JANETTE SUTHERLAND · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 13 Mar 2014•Gwent

Published report and response evidence

This report’s concerns and statements found in recipients’ published responses. Statements are included even where no link to an individual concern is recorded. A link shows an evidence connection; it does not assign responsibility.

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Concerns
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Raised in this report

Recipients
1

Named on the report

Responses found
1

Of 1 recipient

Stated actions
3

Described in responses

Recipients and published responses

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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised1

  1. Road-user hazard from a drainage channel and concrete headwall adjacent to the carriageway
    Part of recurring concern: Uncontrolled roadside obstacles endangering road users

Stated actions An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.3

  1. Caerphilly County Borough Council

    Complete the detailed road-restraint site survey required for the Road Restraint Risk Assessment Process.

  2. Caerphilly County Borough Council

    Investigate the A467 site and develop recommendations or potential measures to reduce future incidents.

  3. Caerphilly County Borough Council

    Retrieve survey data and complete the Road Restraint Risk Assessment Process, providing its findings and outcomes.

Respondent positions A position is what a recipient says about a concern when it does not describe a specific action.1

  1. Caerphilly County Borough Council

    The site complied with design standards at construction, so there was no design-standard departure requiring retrospective changes.

    Disputes the concernThe respondent disagreed with part of the concern or the basis for it.

Source evidence

How this individual concern was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Road-user hazard from a drainage channel and concrete headwall adjacent to the carriageway

Wider context from the report

“The presence of the drainage channel and concrete headwall represent a hazard to road users and a safety barrier should be erected to prevent vehicles from leaving the carriageway and impacting with the concrete headwall. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Uncontrolled roadside obstacles endangering road users.

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Source evidence

How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Complete the detailed road-restraint site survey required for the Road Restraint Risk Assessment Process.

Verbatim wording from the response

“In order to comply with current standards for dealing with the requirements for road restraint systems, a detailed survey must first be conducted at the site. The survey was carried out on the 27th March 2014 and the data will be retrieved as soon as possible for us to fulfil the Road Restraint Risk Assessment Process (RRAP). We will endeavour to complete the RRAP in a timely manner and will provide details of any findings/outcomes at the earliest opportunity.”

Source location

2014-0114-Response-by-Caerphilly-County-Council
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Published 13 March 2014

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Investigate the A467 site and develop recommendations or potential measures to reduce future incidents.

Verbatim wording from the response

“In relation to items 5 and 6 of your report, Officers will be investigating the site in order to provide recommendations and potential measures that will serve to alleviate future incidents.”

Source location

2014-0114-Response-by-Caerphilly-County-Council
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Published 13 March 2014

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Source evidence

How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation

Retrieve survey data and complete the Road Restraint Risk Assessment Process, providing its findings and outcomes.

Verbatim wording from the response

“In order to comply with current standards for dealing with the requirements for road restraint systems, a detailed survey must first be conducted at the site. The survey was carried out on the 27th March 2014 and the data will be retrieved as soon as possible for us to fulfil the Road Restraint Risk Assessment Process (RRAP). We will endeavour to complete the RRAP in a timely manner and will provide details of any findings/outcomes at the earliest opportunity.”

Source location

2014-0114-Response-by-Caerphilly-County-Council
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Published 13 March 2014

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Source evidence

How this respondent position was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation

The site complied with design standards at construction, so there was no design-standard departure requiring retrospective changes.

Verbatim wording from the response

“A report undertaken at the request of Gwent Police concluded there was no departure in respect of design standards at time of construction and there is no mandatory requirement to implement changes in design standards retrospectively.”

Source location

2014-0114-Response-by-Caerphilly-County-Council
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Published 13 March 2014

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