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Reference:
2023/4703
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Question by:
Keith Prince
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Meeting date:
21 December 2023
Since the TfL-commissioned 2017 Loughborough ‘Bus Driver Fatigue’ study discovered that one in six London bus drivers have fallen asleep at the wheel within the past year, how do you reconcile your statement in question 2023/3631 that TfL’s new bus safety strategy “is an evidence-led programme that is primarily focused on reducing killed and seriously injured casualties arising from bus collisions” with your response to question 2023/4234 that over the period 2018-2022 “there were no (i.e. zero) incidents leading to fatalities where fatigue of the bus driver was recorded as a contributory factor in TfL’s incident reporting system.” Might the...