• Reference: 2024/3723
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

The errors on TfL's Bus Safety Performance provide ample evidence that TfL does not have sufficient control over the veracity of the data it publishes about bus deaths and serious injuries involving London's contracted public bus fleet. Will you instruct TfL to conduct an independent audit of its bus safety data, as I asked you to do in March 2022 in question 2022/1222?

• Reference: 2024/3722
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

On page 6, it states: “In 2023 there were no reportable bus occupant (passengers and drivers) fatalities for the first time since 2014.” However, a review of the 2023 Quarterly Bus Safety data found on the TfL website clearly shows that a male passenger was killed on 12 March 2023 in a bus collision in Harrow involving a Route 79 Bus, operated by RATP under contract to TfL. Will you instruct TfL to issue a formal correction to this erroneous statement on Page 6 of this important document?

• Reference: 2024/3721
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

On page 6, it states: "12 per cent fewer people were killed or seriously injured on a London bus in 2023 than in 2022 (from 269 to 258)." However, a review of the 2023 ‘Quarterly Bus Safety’ data found on the TfL Website clearly shows 554 people onboard London Buses were "Sent to Hospital" in 2023 – an increase of 1.5% over 2022's 546 people in the same ‘Onboard Safety Incident’ category. If you add the 1 passenger killed in a bus collision in March 2023 to the 554 "Sent to Hospital”, you get 555 KSIs vs. 548 for 2022...

• Reference: 2024/3720
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

On page 6, it states: “In 2023 there were 137 people killed or seriously injured in collision with a London bus on the roads (including the six fatalities mentioned above).” However, a review of the 2023 Data of the Quarterly Bus Safety data found on the TfL website clearly shows 162 people were "Sent to Hospital" from bus collisions in 2023 – an increase of 2.5% over 2022's 158 people in the same ‘Collision Incident’ category. If you add the 8 people killed from bus collisions in 2023 to the 162 "Sent to Hospital”, you get 170 KSIs vs. 165...

• Reference: 2024/3719
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

On page 5 of the "Casualties in Greater London during 2023 - Road safety factsheet" under "2023 Position: Six people killed” it states, “The number of people killed on or in collision with a London bus in 2023 was six, the lowest number on record outside of the pandemic-affected years of 2020 and 2021." On page 6 of same TfL report under "Collisions involving London buses” it states: “In 2023 there were six people killed in collisions with London buses, all pedestrians, this is four fewer people killed (-39 per cent) than 2010-14 baseline. Our 2030 target is zero. "...

• Reference: 2024/3718
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Please can you provide me with information about the 12 March 2023 death of an adult male passenger/customer from a collision involving a route 79 RATP bus in Harrow (ID 260054)?

• Reference: 2024/3717
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

In your response to 2024/3451, you stated "TfL is committed to improving how it communicates with those affected by serious incidents on the transport network, and is implementing a number of actions to ensure this happens promptly and that those affected receive the support they need, alongside its ongoing actions to improve safety." Please will you provide me with any documentary evidence of those alleged actions that might show that the improvements you've indicated?

• Reference: 2024/3716
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

In your response to 2024/3451, you stated that there were no written notes for an internal meeting with TfL executives which took place on 13 May 2024. Do you think TfL's policy of only providing verbal briefings to TfL executives about meetings with victims' families might undermine any "lessons being learned"?

• Reference: 2024/3715
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

When will you respond to question 2024/3450?

• Reference: 2024/3714
• Question by: Keith Prince
• Meeting date: 21 November 2024

Your response to 2024/3449 stated "Training for service controllers is provided by the bus operating company and must be delivered to any new service controller before the iBus system is used in an operational or live environment. This training covers the importance of considering driver welfare as part of any service control decisions." Does TfL provide any guidance for this training, and if this guidance exists, does TfL monitor how it's being applied by bus operators? If TfL has neither the guidance nor monitoring in place, how can your statement be true?