Cameron Chadwick · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Issued 6 Jul 2017•Manchester West

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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Recipients
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Responses found
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Stated actions
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Concerns and recipient responses

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Concerns raised1

  1. Failure to repair a carriageway pothole meeting the stated repair threshold
    Part of recurring concern: Failure to maintain roads, pavements and verges in a safe state of repair

Stated actions An action is something a recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to a concern raised.1

  1. Wigan Borough Council

    Repair the carriageway pothole through temporary and subsequent permanent repairs.

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

  1. Wigan Borough Council

    Regular inspections and repairs under the Highway Safety Inspection Policy address highway safety defects according to the existing danger-based intervention thresholds.

    Existing arrangements considered sufficientThe respondent said that existing arrangements were sufficient, so no further action was needed.
  2. Wigan Borough Council

    The pothole was 36mm deep, not the 45mm depth reported in police evidence.

    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

Failure to repair a carriageway pothole meeting the stated repair threshold

Wider context from the report

“1. During the Inquest evidence was heard that:- i. Evidence was given at the Inquest that there was a pothole in the carriageway near to where the accident that caused Cameron Chadwick’s death occurred. An officer of Wigan Council informed the Court that a pothole that was 40mm or more deep should be repaired. A Police Officer gave evidence that whilst he could not fully guarantee the exactness of his measurement the pothole was 45mm deep at the time of this accident. ”

Is this part of a recurring concern?

Yes — Failure to maintain roads, pavements and verges in a safe state of repair.

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How this respondent action was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Repair the carriageway pothole through temporary and subsequent permanent repairs.

Verbatim wording from the response

“However, in line with best practice and from the Regulation 28 - Coroner’s Report advising us this incident, the highway asset management service has exercised their discretion to carry out a repair, although it did not actually meet the Council’s highway intervention level for a safety defect. For recording purposes I can advise that a temporary repair to the carriageway pothole was actioned 6th July 2017. This temporary repair was followed up with a permanent one on 17th July 2017. I have attached a photograph referenced H2 as evidence of this repair.”

Source location

Response from Wigan Council
Page 2 · response
Published 6 July 2017

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How this respondent position was interpreted

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PFD Monitor interpretation

Regular inspections and repairs under the Highway Safety Inspection Policy address highway safety defects according to the existing danger-based intervention thresholds.

Verbatim wording from the response

“I can confirm that Wigan Council has in place a Highway Safety Inspection Policy for its highway network. All highways are subject to regular safety inspections by competent highway inspectors. Any safety defects found during those inspections giving rise to a real source of dangers to reasonable users would have been subject to repair within certain timescales dependent on the degree of the danger.”

Source location

Response from Wigan Council
Page 2 · response
Published 6 July 2017

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How this respondent position was interpreted

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

PFD Monitor interpretation

The pothole was 36mm deep, not the 45mm depth reported in police evidence.

Verbatim wording from the response

“I can confirm that a Technical Officer (Highways and Streetworks) and a Technical Design Officer (Highways) from the Highway Asset Management Team, who are experienced in carrying out highway safety inspections, attended the location of the incident at Hevvellyn Road, Norley Hall, Wigan on 6th July 2017. The purpose of this site visit was to establish the depth of the carriageway pothole. In the police report (exhibit DJH 2- point 19) the police officer gave evidence that the pothole was 4.5cm (45mm) deep at its lowest point at the time of the accident.”

Source location

Response from Wigan Council
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Published 6 July 2017

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