Patrick Mongan
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Coroner's Concerns
The Forensic Collison Investigator advised that the aforementioned mound of earth creates a continuing hazard to motorway users and any vehicle which might have legitimate cause to veer to the central reservation and in doing so strikes the mound, even when travelling within the speed limit, would be subjected to the same effect on the vehicle (in that control of the vehicle would be lost) with potentially catastrophic effects. The continued presence of this hazard (the mound of earth on a tarmac construction) places road users at risk of death
Responses
National Highways levelled the central reservation at the specific location on the M18 motorway to remove the hazardous mound of earth, completing the work on June 13, 2025.
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Dear Ms N J Munday
Regulations 28 Report - After Inquest Patrick Antony Mongan
Thank you for your correspondence dated 2 June 2025.
National Highways has investigated the circumstances of the incident and the concerns you have raised at this location. A common feature of a carriageway outside of the normal running lanes or hard shoulder is to have soft verges, kerbs, hardened areas or a combination of these and this includes the M18 motorway. In this specific location the small section of concern you raised is a softened grassed central reservation with no kerbs, a double sided, tension corrugated vehicle restraint system and a catch pit for drainage purposes all of which are maintained to the required standards contained in the published Design Manual for Roads and Bridges of grass cutting, litter picking and drainage clearance. On the night of Thursday 12 June 2025, we undertook the action set out below, which was completed on the morning of 13 June 2025. Action taken: i) Levelled the central reservation in this specific location so that there is no deviation in level between the carriageway running lanes and the central reservation
There are no other actions to be carried out at this location.
Registered office Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close, Guildford GU1 4LZ National Highways Limited registered in England and Wales number 09346363
The safety of everyone on our road network matters; it is an imperative for our business in what we set out to achieve and a core value of our organisation. Every death on our roads is a tragic loss of life and we offer our deepest sympathies to all those affected by Mr Mongan’s death.
I trust the above is of assistance.
Regulations 28 Report - After Inquest Patrick Antony Mongan
Thank you for your correspondence dated 2 June 2025.
National Highways has investigated the circumstances of the incident and the concerns you have raised at this location. A common feature of a carriageway outside of the normal running lanes or hard shoulder is to have soft verges, kerbs, hardened areas or a combination of these and this includes the M18 motorway. In this specific location the small section of concern you raised is a softened grassed central reservation with no kerbs, a double sided, tension corrugated vehicle restraint system and a catch pit for drainage purposes all of which are maintained to the required standards contained in the published Design Manual for Roads and Bridges of grass cutting, litter picking and drainage clearance. On the night of Thursday 12 June 2025, we undertook the action set out below, which was completed on the morning of 13 June 2025. Action taken: i) Levelled the central reservation in this specific location so that there is no deviation in level between the carriageway running lanes and the central reservation
There are no other actions to be carried out at this location.
Registered office Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close, Guildford GU1 4LZ National Highways Limited registered in England and Wales number 09346363
The safety of everyone on our road network matters; it is an imperative for our business in what we set out to achieve and a core value of our organisation. Every death on our roads is a tragic loss of life and we offer our deepest sympathies to all those affected by Mr Mongan’s death.
I trust the above is of assistance.
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Investigation and Inquest
On 20 September 2024 I commenced an investigation into the death of Patrick Anthony MONGAN. The investigation concluded at the end of the inquest . The conclusion of the inquest was Road Traffic Collision. The cause of death was: 1a Chest injuries 1b Road Traffic Collision
Circumstances of the Death
This relates to the death of an 18 year old male who died following an RTC on the 7th September 2024. The circumstances surrounding the death are as follows;
At 02:26 hours, South Yorkshire Police received a report of a RTC on the Northbound carriageway of the M18 between junctions 1 & 2 where it was reported that a vehicle had left the carriageway to the nearside disappearing into trees. Staff from Highways England arrive on scene and locate the vehicle embedded deep into the trees and two males, Patrick Mongan (DOB 21/03/2006) and his brother, had been ejected from the vehicle landing next to it. Patrick Mongan, was reported to not be breathing and life was pronounced as extinct at 03:10 hours. It was later identified that the subject vehicle had struck a grassed mound of earth on the central reservation which interrupted the tarmac construction of the central reservation causing the vehicle in which the deceased was a passenger to become airborne.
At 02:26 hours, South Yorkshire Police received a report of a RTC on the Northbound carriageway of the M18 between junctions 1 & 2 where it was reported that a vehicle had left the carriageway to the nearside disappearing into trees. Staff from Highways England arrive on scene and locate the vehicle embedded deep into the trees and two males, Patrick Mongan (DOB 21/03/2006) and his brother, had been ejected from the vehicle landing next to it. Patrick Mongan, was reported to not be breathing and life was pronounced as extinct at 03:10 hours. It was later identified that the subject vehicle had struck a grassed mound of earth on the central reservation which interrupted the tarmac construction of the central reservation causing the vehicle in which the deceased was a passenger to become airborne.
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