RTA ignored 'unsafe' spot where Leah White was killed, inquest hears William and Sheila White with a portrait of their daughter Leah. THE former Roads and Traffic Authority knew a notorious roundabout was "unsafe"' years before 17-year-old Leah White was killed in a car crash but did nothing to warn motorists or prevent the tragedy, an inquest heard yesterday. The inquest into the popular Wyong High School student was re-opened after her father discovered an RTA policy, which was tendered to an earlier inquest in 2011 but was "missed" and never examined nor its relevance questioned. The policy - Technical Direction 2004/RS05 - outlined the steps the RTA should have taken in regards to Sideway-force Coefficient Routine Investigation Machine or SCRIM testing of the road's surface friction and what departments within the organisation were responsible. The inquest yesterday heard the notorious roundabout at Wyong Rd and Reliance Drive at Tuggerah was flagged "for further investigation" when it was tested in 2007 and again in August 2008 after complaints from police and Wyong Council that it was dangerous and slippery in the rain. Leah was a passenger of her friend Jessica Bowmaker's car when it skidded in the wet as it exited the roundabout on April 1, 2009. The car mounted the median strip and crossed into the path of an on-coming 4WD. Only the day before, an almost identical head-on had occurred at the same spot. A police investigation cleared Leah's friend, who was 17 and had had her P-plates for one day, of speeding or negligence. Instead it found the slippery road, its twisting nature on exit and three different road surfaces had caused the tragedy. The then RTA's road safety manager for the Central Coast Craig Wilson Leckie yesterday said he requested crash data as part of an investigation into the road, prior to Leah's death, which found there were eight crashes between 2003-07, seven occurred in the wet, five involved cars leaving the road and one head-on. But no further action was taken until the day after Leah's death when concrete barriers were erected along the median strip to stop cars losing control and ending up on the wrong side of the road. Council assisting Sergeant Greg Hunt told the inquest email exchanges between Mr Leckie and other senior RTA staff as late as November 6, 2008 - just five months before her death - indicated the road was "unsafe in wet weather'" but no warning signs or remediation works were undertaken. Mr Leckie said the SCRIM testing policy fell under the asset management directorate and had little to do with him. He said he forwarded "the information to the appropriate people for investigation" but didn't feel compelled to do anything further. "It wasn't a great deal of concern when we were looking at areas with over 100 crashes in the same time period," he said. The earlier coroner's inquest ultimately found there was "no evidence" to suggest the RTA had failed to meet its minimum statutory obligations or that any individual was negligent. Outside Gosford Coronor's Court Mr White said he just wanted the RTA to take accountability. "These guys sit there in these jobs and rock up here and they're not accountable for anything," he said. They caused the death of our daughter. Coroner Alan Railton adjourned the inquest until September 13 when it is hoped the former RTA asset manager can give evidence.