Buses: Accidents
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on the number of bus incidents where driver fatigue was identified as an issue in (a) 2024 and (b) the last five years for which data is available.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
The Department publishes statistics on road collisions and casualties involving personal injury reported by police via the data collection system known as STATS19.
Within this system, reporting police officers can assign up to 6 factors which, in their opinion, may have contributed to the collision. Please note that this does not assign blame for the collision to any specific road user but gives an indication of which factors the attending officer thought contributed to the collision.
The number of buses or coaches involved in collisions where the contributory factor ‘fatigue’ was assigned to the driver in each of the last 5 years for which data is available are shown in the table. Figures for 2024 are scheduled for publication in September 2025.
Year | Bus/coach in reported road injury collision with contributory factor ‘fatigue’ assigned to driver |
2019 | 13 |
2020 | 7 |
2021 | 5 |
2022 | 12 |
2023 | 18 |
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