TfL Ref: 1789-2021

Thank you for your request received by us on 3 December 2020 asking for information about the altering of bus stops on Cycle Superhighway 7 (CS7) in the London Borough of Wandsworth.

Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of Environmental Information Regulations the and our information access policy. I can confirm that we hold the information you require. You asked for the following:

Did any TfL staff and/or members of its ‘London Streetspace Programme’ meet with the Metropolitan Police before altering the layouts of 6 of its bus stops on the CS7 Cycle Superhighway in 2020, in the borough of Wandsworth so that passengers have to cross a cycle lane to get on and off buses? Did it ask the Metropolitan Police to keep a record of any accidents that occurred there? If so on what dates were those meetings held, who attended them, were minutes taken and how (attended in person, zoom conference etc) were the meetings held? How many accidents at these 6 bus stops have the Metropolitan Police reported to TfL during 2020?

We can advise that TfL did engage with Metropolitan Police on the CS7 proposal prior to its implementation. The engagement took place via email exchange, where designs for the proposals were shared with Met Police.

Information on collisions on the road network is collated by the Met Police, whether by police officers attending the scene of a collision or the public using the self-reporting tool. The Met Police share this information once they have completed their processes – whether that is investigating the collision or verifying information. It takes some time to complete these processes, and we have not yet received any reports from the Met Police since implementing these Streetspace changes on CS7.

Full data for 2020 is likely to be available next year, usually around April/May. We publish complete data on our website, and in line with the government’s Department for Transport (DfT) reporting requirements, csv files and mapped records will be available. Currently, we only have provisional data until the end of May 2020, which is before the introduction of the Streetscape Programme changes in the area.

Please note that the personal injury collision reporting process is stipulated by the DfT with their STATS20 guidance document. Both the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police follow this guidance. Part of STATS20 states that:

Section 2
The Road Traffic Act 1988 (section 170), as amended by Section 72 of the 1991 Act, stipulates that all fatal or injury accidents on public roads involving at least one mechanically propelled vehicle should be reported by the public to the police unless insurance documents, name and address, and details of vehicle ownership and registration are exchanged between drivers.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/230596/stats20-2011.pdf

Ideally, we would get details of all personal injury collisions in London, however, if the parties involved exchange details there is no legal obligation to report. Therefore, as with the whole of London, there is a possibility that some collisions are not reported. Since late 2016 it is possible for someone involved in a collision to self-report online, but again there is no requirement to do so.

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Jasmine Howard
FOI Case Officer
FOI Case Management Team
General Counsel
Transport for London