{"id":297774,"date":"2025-07-28T06:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297774\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T06:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:15:11","slug":"council-told-to-take-action-after-dorothy-wagstaff-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/297774\/","title":{"rendered":"Council told to take action after Dorothy Wagstaff death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Dorothy Wagstaff, 86, passed away on January 11 after her car collided with a post, plastic barriers, railings, and a lamp post on Leeds Road in Otley.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An inquest into her death, conducted by Assistant Coroner John Hobson, concluded on June 26.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The cause of her death was ruled as multiple traumatic injuries and multiple medical comorbidities.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>  Prevention of Future Deaths Report sent to Leeds City Council<\/p>\n<p>\n  A Prevention of Future Deaths Report, sent to\u00a0Leeds City Council Highways, says it was found to be &#8220;more likely than not&#8221; that the car hit the obstacles after Mrs Wagstaff suffered a medical episode.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The report adds that the plastic barriers were temporary and provided &#8220;little resistance&#8221; to prevent the car from leaving the road and\u00a0colliding\u00a0with railings and a\u00a0lamp post.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The car came to a rest and paramedics attended, but Mrs Wagstaff\u2019s death was confirmed at the scene at 10.57am.\n<\/p>\n<p>  Coroner&#8217;s concerns<\/p>\n<p>\n  Assistant Coroner Hobson outlined four concerns in the report.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  These were as follows:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The trajectory of Mrs Wagstaff\u2019s car after the initial collision with the concrete post involved passing through temporary plastic barriers which, on the evidence heard, offered no resistance such that the car then proceeded to leave the road and collide with a lamp post before coming\u00a0to rest back on the road.\n  <\/li>\n<li>Upon examining photographs of the scene, the road barrier\/railings and sections of the road, it was noted that plastic barriers similar to those referred to in the record of inquest above were present in another section of the A660 Leeds Road.\n  <\/li>\n<li>Within the evidence adduced at the inquest, it was noted that Leeds City Council Highways Department have indicated that a schedule of works will be created with a view to replacing the old concrete and metal pole barriers with metal pedestrian railings in this area of the A660.\u00a0\n  <\/li>\n<li>The concern that I raise is that photographs considered at the inquest indicated the ongoing presence of plastic barriers in a gap in the existing barrier\/railings elsewhere along the stretch of road. Plastic barriers were a factor in the circumstances of the accident in which Mrs Langstaff sadly died. If that remains the case, I am of the view that action should be taken to prevent a risk of future deaths.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  Council\u00a0currently reviewing report in detail<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for Leeds City Council, who has to respond to the report by October 12, said:\u00a0\u201cOur sincere condolences go to Dorothy Wagstaff\u2019s family and friends at this difficult time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe have received the Coroner\u2019s report following the recent inquest and are currently reviewing its contents in detail.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We will provide a full response to the Coroner at the earliest opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorothy Wagstaff, 86, passed away on January 11 after her car collided with a post, plastic barriers, railings,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-297774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114929397054062990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}