Council served with health and safety notice after recycling truck death

Richard Evans, local democracy reporter

A Welsh council has been served with three improvement notices by the health and safety executive after an elderly lady was killed by a recycling truck.

Emergency services were called to the town’s Marble Arch off Brookes Street after a fatality on the morning of 1 September 2025.

Ms Daphne Stallard was described as a “bright shining light of love” who cared for people of all ages.
The 89-year-old died at the scene of the incident. Ms Stallard was the mother of Mary Stallard, Bishop of Llandaff and a former Assistant Bishop of Bangor.

The health and safety executive has now served three notices to Conwy County Council.

The served Improvement Notice reads: “You have failed to produce a suitable and sufficient risk assessment for the Llandudno trade waste (recycling) route, that included collections from Marble Arch, which was the scene of a fatal incident on 1 September 2025.”

A second connected notice reads: “You have failed to conduct effective planning and organisation arrangements, to enable the completion of suitable and sufficient risk assessments, for trade waste collections.”

And a third reads: “You have failed to conduct effective planning, organisation, and monitoring arrangements, to ensure that waste operatives are following relevant risk-assessment control measures and safe systems of work.”

The council was contacted for comment.