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Master Mason Williams · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 10 Nov 2023•Warwickshire

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Concerns
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Raised in this report

Recipients
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Responses found
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Of 1 recipient

Stated actions
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Described in responses

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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised1

  1. Unavailability of street lighting due to underground cabling faults
    Part of recurring concern: Inadequate and unreliable public-road street lightingPart of recurring concern: Inadequate outdoor safety lighting
Responses linked to these concerns

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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.4

  1. Action

    Recruit two additional street lighting team employees to increase capacity for detecting street lighting faults.

    Stated by the CouncilStated completedThe respondent said that this action was complete when they made their response on 14 November 2023.
  2. Action

    Interrogate the central management system daily through an appropriately qualified officer to detect faults not automatically alerted or publicly reported.

    Stated by the CouncilStated completedThe respondent said that this action was complete when they made their response on 14 November 2023.
  3. Action

    Continue working with Telensa to pursue a solution for automatically detecting complete power loss to street lighting columns.

    Stated by the CouncilStated in progressThe respondent said that this action was in progress when they made their response on 14 November 2023.

Source evidence

How this individual concern was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Unavailability of street lighting due to underground cabling faults

Wider context from the report

“i. The street lighting along Trinity Road, Piccadilly, nr Kingsbury was not illuminated at the time of the Road Traffic Collision due to a fault. I am told the fault was with the underground cabling which was affecting lamp posts 16 to 21 along Trinity Road. ii. I am aware that the cabling may have been damaged from a previous Road Traffic Collision that occurred on 20 October 2022. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Inadequate and unreliable public-road street lighting; Inadequate outdoor safety lighting.

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Recruit two additional street lighting team employees to increase capacity for detecting street lighting faults.

Verbatim wording from the response

“2. The Council’s street lighting team has recruited two additional employees who started work on 6 November 2023. The central management system is now interrogated by an appropriately qualified officer on a daily basis. This means that street lighting faults that are not alerted automatically (ie due to power outage) or are not reported by the public will be detected very quickly.”

Source location

Response from Warwickshire County Council
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Published 14 November 2023

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Interrogate the central management system daily through an appropriately qualified officer to detect faults not automatically alerted or publicly reported.

Verbatim wording from the response

“2. The Council’s street lighting team has recruited two additional employees who started work on 6 November 2023. The central management system is now interrogated by an appropriately qualified officer on a daily basis. This means that street lighting faults that are not alerted automatically (ie due to power outage) or are not reported by the public will be detected very quickly.”

Source location

Response from Warwickshire County Council
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Published 14 November 2023

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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

PFD Monitor interpretation

Continue working with Telensa to pursue a solution for automatically detecting complete power loss to street lighting columns.

Verbatim wording from the response

“4. The Council met with Telensa, its contracted supplier of the central management system, in March 2023 and highlighted the lack of an automatic systems alert in the event of a complete power loss to a street lighting column. Telensa have advised that they will consider updates and improvements that could be made to the system. The Council will continue to work with Telensa to pursue a solution to this issue.”

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Response from Warwickshire County Council
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Published 14 November 2023

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Repair the damaged cabling, replace the damaged lighting column, and restore full operation of the Trinity Road street lighting.

Verbatim wording from the response

“1. The damaged power cabling on Trinity Road was temporarily repaired by the Council’s contractors on 5 December 2022 to restore the street lighting. The lighting column damaged on 28 October 2022 (no. 18) was replaced and a permanent repair to the cable carried out on 17 January 2023. The street lighting on Trinity Road has been fully operational since that date.”

Source location

Response from Warwickshire County Council
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Published 14 November 2023

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Other statements in published responses

These actions and other statements could not be clearly connected to one concern in this report.

Recipient positions A position is what a recipient says about a concern when they do not describe a specific action.1

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    Council records show the earlier Trinity Road collision occurred on 28 October 2022, not 20 October 2022.

    Stated by the CouncilDisputes the concernThe respondent disagreed with part of the concern or the basis for it.

Source evidence

How this respondent position was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Council records show the earlier Trinity Road collision occurred on 28 October 2022, not 20 October 2022.

Verbatim wording from the response

“The Council’s records indicate that the previous road traffic collision on Trinity Road occurred on 28 October 2022 and not 20 October 2022 when a street lighting column (no. 18) was damaged by a vehicle. The Council received police incident report 108 of the 28/10/2022 notifying of a collision at the location. The Council instructed its contractors to attend as an emergency and they attended on 28 October 2022. On attending, the contractors found that lighting column no. 18 had been hit and was unsafe so took emergency action to cut down the column and prevent it from falling before a new column could be ordered and installed. Damage to the underground cabling was not detected at this time.”

Source location

Response from Warwickshire County Council
Page 1 · response
Published 14 November 2023

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