Road crashes in Scottish Borders

6,795 recorded collisions since 2000.

Scottish Borders has recorded 6,795 road collisions since 2000, 219 of them fatal and 1,553 causing serious injury. That makes it the 240th-busiest of 352 local authorities in Great Britain for recorded collisions. Around 26% caused death or serious injury. Its fatal rate of 32.2 per 1,000 collisions sits above the Great Britain average of 13.6. Numbers have fallen by about 79% since 2000, from 417 to 87 in 2024. The A7 is the most affected road locally, with 645 collisions.

Figures cover collisions reported to police (STATS19) from 2000 onward; severity definitions changed over time, so treat long-range trends with care. Source: DfT STATS19, Open Government Licence v3.0.