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Not an easy thing to read though, but a couple of points brought me up short:
Point 52 of the judgement seems to say that the coroner was right not to consider whether some measures could be found to prevent similar deaths in future because there are no such measures.
Point 53, that deaths like this often result from collisions between HGvs and cyclists, so there can't be anything of general benefit to learn by examining this one.
This is some truly contemptible erroneous circular reasoning. The earlier parts take each point of the family's attempts to prompt an effective inquest and twists each out of it's context in the whole to find a way of dismissing it. The main impression i get from reading through the judgement is that coroners have the right to do as they damn well please and how dare anyone question that.