Friends Of Long Rock Mexico Crossing 28 Godolphin Road Long Rock Penzance TR20 8JP 07973 369968 robzrob@hotmail.

com Sarah Mitchell, Route Safety Improvement Manager (Western) Network Rail 6th Flr Western House 1 Holbrook Way Swindon SN1 1BD Dear Ms Mitchell Long Rock Mexico Crossing Further to the site meeting on 29.01.13. We understand that you are Network Rail's lead officer with responsibility for the Long Rock Mexico Crossing and that it is to you that we should address requests for information. Please send us the following: (1) a copy of Network Rail's latest risk assessment for the Long Rock Mexico crossing; (2) a copy of Network Rail's latest risk assessment for the foot crossing at Hayle station; and (3) the information specified in the attached schedule. In order to save on copying and postage we should be happy to receive electronic documents. If necessary, please treat this as a request under the Freedom of Information Act. We look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely Robert Nance for FOLRMC 04.02.13

Schedule (a) We understand that the risk assessments for the Long Rock Mexico crossing carried out in 2007, 2009 and 2010 all scored the risk at level C for individual frequent users. Please tell us: what level C means in numerical terms (how many chances per thousand person years?) whether level C is better or worse than the target level of 1 in 20,000 person years what proportion of footpath crossings nationwide scored level C or worse. (b) Please tell us what options for the mitigation of risk were considered in each of the three risk assessments mentioned above. (c) Please tell us what measures for the mitigation of risk were implemented after each of the three risk assessments mentioned above. (d) We know of one fatality on the Long Rock Mexico crossing in its 160 years of operation. Please let us have details of any other cases of death or injury associated with this crossing. (e) We understand that between May 2007 and June 2012 NR recorded five near-misses at the Long Rock Mexico crossing. Please give details of any near-misses or similar incidents recorded since then. (f) We understand that the RRISG (of which NR is a member) has commissioned a comprehensive piece of research (Project T-984, Research into the Causes of Pedestrian Accidents at Level Crossings and Potential Solutions), which is not due to be published for two years. Please tell us whether NR expects this project to have findings relevant to Long Rock Mexico crossing. (g) We understand that in October 2012 NR announced that it was investing 130m in making crossings safer. Please tell us: how much of this sum is due to be spent on improvements to the infrastructure of crossings and how much will be spent on publicity; what is your budget for improvements to the infrastructure of the Long Rock Mexico crossing; what works were intended on 01.12.12 (as referred to in your letters of 23.11.12 to those affected by the works) and what works were actually carried out on that date and whether they were completed. (h) Should the Long Rock Mexico crossing be closed, the two nearest crossings available to pedestrians would be the gated vehicle crossing down the line and the road bridge crossing up the line, but both of these crossings would appear to afford pedestrians using or approaching them little protection from motor vehicles. Please tell us: what steps NR has taken to assess the risks from motor vehicles to pedestrians approaching these two crossings; what recommendations NR has made to the highway authority (Cornwall Council) for the improvement of safety for pedestrians; what discussions NR has had with the highway authority about this issue. (i) Please give us the following information about the gated vehicle crossing: details of all near misses or similar incidents in the last 10 years; details of all incidents where the barriers have failed to operate correctly in the last 10 years; how long, on average, the barriers should be closed before and after a train passes through the crossing; how the timing of the opening and closing of the barriers works; whether, for example, the timing is controlled by a computer program or activated when a train passes over a trigger on the track; whether the timing of the opening and closing of the barriers has been changed in the last 10 years, and if so, when and by how much; what the longest period the barriers, when they are working correctly, can be down for.