{"id":344540,"date":"2025-08-14T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/344540\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:40:13","slug":"birmingham-crash-junction-still-poses-risk-to-life-coroner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/344540\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham crash junction still poses risk to life, coroner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MG driver was travelling with right of way along St James Road, the assistant coroner for Birmingham and Solihull said, and access to the street from Frederick Road was &#8220;controlled by a STOP&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Access onto St James Road from Frederick Road was also controlled by a give way sign, she said, and both streets had a 20mph (32km\/h) speed limit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following a post-mortem examination, the medical cause of Ms Noordam&#8217;s death was from multiple injuries she sustained in the crash, the coroner stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Samuel said that during the inquest, evidence had emerged that &#8220;revealed matters giving rise to concern&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council had said that if a junction was being designed from scratch, it would oppose using a non-signalled crossroad junction, because of &#8220;the inherent confusion around priority of movement&#8221;, Ms Samuel said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Whilst the road layout, including signage and road markings, complies with the legal requirements, this does not appear to have mitigated against the prevalence of incidents at the stop junction,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MG driver was travelling with right of way along St James Road, the assistant coroner for Birmingham&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-344540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115028585706107381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344540","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=344540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}