Hoshi Jane Naylor · Prevention of Future Deaths report

On 16 January 2018 an investigation was commenced into the death of Hoshi Jane Naylor, aged 12. The investigation concluded at the end of the Inquest on 15 February 2019. The conclusions of the Inquest were that Hoshi died on 11 January 2018 in Leeds General Infirmary from the effects of a severe traumatic brain injury sustained in a road traffic incident on 4 January 2018, and that this was a death due to a road traffic collision.

At around 1825 hours on 4 January 2018, Hoshi was crossing the A6120 Leeds outer ring road when she was struck at a point close to the A6120/A58 roundabout by a car travelling on the eastbound carriageway. She sustained unsurvivable injuries, and died a week later in Leeds General Infirmary.

(1) The point at which Hoshi started to cross the road is approximately opposite a bus stop and a shop which she was intending to visit to buy packed lunch provisions for a school trip the following day. It is a point where pedestrians can reasonably be anticipated to cross the road to and from the bus stop and the shop.
(2) The nearest pedestrian refuge island to the scene of the collision is approximately 500 metres away from it, in an eastbound direction.
(3) The nearest traffic signal controlled pedestrian crossing to the scene of the collision is approximately 940 metres away from it, in an eastbound direction.
(4) In the opinion of a Forensic Collision Investigator called as an expert witness to the Inquest, the provision of facilitated pedestrian crossing points on this stretch of the A6120 (whether facilitated by refuge islands or pedestrian crossings) is sparse in comparison to such provision on similar stretches of the A6120 elsewhere along its length.
(5) The street lighting at the collision site appears to offer little illumination of the grass verges to either side of the road. In dark conditions, motorists' awareness of pedestrians intending to cross the road is likely to be restricted.