Jason Myles

Dear Professor Marks Thank you for your recent correspondence following your investigation into the death of Mr Myles in on 7th February 2024. May I share our sympathies with the family and friends of Mr Myles at their loss. Following the concerns raised in your email, additional site checks were made on on 17th February 2025. I can confirm that there are existing signs warning of the steep nature of the hill into the village, the bend in the road and a chevron board at the bend in question replacing the one damaged in the collision. In addition, there is a village name plate making clear that there is a settlement, and the farm buildings are visible from over 400 metres distance. The signs are in good condition and provide appropriate information about the nature of the road into the village and the bend at the base of the hill. As you mentioned evidence presented that over the past fifty years there have been a large number of fatal and non-fatal collisions at this location, I have examined our archive of STATS19 collision data. This has taken some time to complete. Whilst this only goes back to 1981, there are no records of any other injury collisions of any severity on the hill or the bend in question in those forty-four years. I would be grateful for the information you have been given so that I can examine it further. As you will be aware, suicides are not retained as STATS19 data as they are excluded under the rules set by the Department for Transport, so if there have been previous suicides on the hill they will not be present in the collision records. I would be grateful for any inquest information you hold that I might consider. All additional information supplied will be used to re-examine both the hill and the bend.