https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-b ... s-55062719
It used to be the case that a death in a road accident had to be the subject of a coroner's inquest with a jury. The whole system of coroners and inquests was reviewed and put on a statutory basis.
An inquest can no longer reach findings accusing somebody of an offence. The rationale for that is that decisions in criminal cases are now the responsibility of the CPS. But that doesn't cover the situation where the police decide there's nothing to prosecute so don't submit a file to the CPS.
In her summing up, (Senior Coroner) Ms Whitting said she could "understand why Mr Fudge's family have been unsatisfied by the police investigation".
She pointed at factors including the lack of coverage in interview over whether a lead motorcyclist in Mr Fudge's group might have alerted the car driver to the possible presence of more riders.
The coroner added: "The fact that he had not apparently checked his blind spot was not referred to at all."
Ms Whitting rejected the police conclusion that the crash "was simply caused by neither the driver nor Mr Fudge seeing the other when making the decision to carry out their manoeuvres".
"In my view... the collision occurred when the driver of the Hyundai turned into the path of Mr Fudge," she said.
It seems that after the Coroner's criticism, the police simply "marked their own homework" and no file was submitted to the CPS.