Would like to know how many serious incidents and define them have happened between May and September 2020 between North Circular and Bowes Road between Colney Hatch Lane and Green Lanes intersection with dates included and the junction of Powys Lane and the North Circular Rd

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TfL Ref: FOI-1204-2021

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 29 September 2020, asking about road safety incidents.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act and our information access policy. I can confirm we do hold the information you require.

Unfortunately, to provide the information you have requested would exceed the ‘appropriate limit’ of £450 set by the Freedom of Information (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004. Under section 12 of the FOI Act, we are not obliged to comply with a request if we estimate that the cost of determining whether we hold the information, locating and retrieving it and extracting it from other information would exceed the appropriate limit. This is calculated at £25 per hour for every hour spent on the activities described.

We manually process raw collision data, around 2000 records per month, including police reports and self-reports. Currently, we’ve completed data up until March 2020.

The collision data you seek for May to September 2020, is yet to be collated and verified. In order to provide you with the information you require at this time, someone would have to manually review thousands of records and extract those that match the locations and type of collision you are interested in. This would significantly exceed the aforementioned threshold.

If you are interested in collision data at the required locations before March 2020, we can provide those within the appropriate cost limit.

To further help bring the cost of responding to your request within the £450 limit, you may wish to consider narrowing its scope so that we can more easily locate, retrieve and extract the information you are seeking. For example, you might consider limiting your request to a shorter period of time.

Please note that we will not be taking further action until we receive your revised request.

However, if you are considering submitting a further FOI request please think carefully about whether the request is essential at this current time, as answering FOI requests will require the use of limited resources and the attention of staff who could be supporting other essential activity. Where requests are made, please note that our response time may be impacted by the current situation.

In the meantime, if you have any queries or would like to discuss your request, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal.

Yours sincerely

Eva Hextall

FOI Case Management Team

General Counsel

Transport for London

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