Request ID: FOI-2211-2223 Date published: 22 December 2022
You asked
I would like to request information regarding the road collisions involving TfL's bus services contracted for the period from 1 January 2022 to today's date.
Included in this information I would like:
Date of accident
Operator name
Summary details of the accident (i.e., pedestrian, cyclist, vehicle, other) London Borough where accident occurred (reg number) if possible
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-2211-2223
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 1st December 2022 asking for information about road collisions involving TfL buses.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.
Specifically you asked:
“I would like to request information regarding the road collisions involving TfL's bus services contracted for the period from 1 January 2022 to today's date.
Included in this information I would like:
Date of accident
Operator name
Summary details of the accident (i.e., pedestrian, cyclist, vehicle, other) London Borough where accident occurred (reg number) if possible.”
I can confirm that we hold the information you require.
Please note, TfL has two separate sources for this data. The spreadsheet attached shows information recorded by the police using Department for Transport (DfT) guidance, generally known as “STATS19” (see here for more information on how the data is compiled: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/road-accident-and-safety-statistics-guidance). The police do not record the bus operator name. Data is for January to July 2022, which is the latest processed information available. All 2022 records are currently provisional and subject to change. You may need to expand the width of some columns to reads the data in full. Also note that this data is published regularly on our website here: https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/bus-safety-data - see “Bus safety data release”.
Separate to the above, please see the following page of our website which shows data from the “IRIS” system, as reported by bus operators. This includes details of the bus operator:
If this is not the information you are looking for, or if you are unable to access it for any reason, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Please see the attached information sheet for details of your right to appeal as well as information on copyright and what to do if you would like to re-use any of the information we have disclosed.
Yours sincerely,
David Wells FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
