Council area · Scotland
Scottish Borders road collision data
Between 2021 and 2025, the police recorded 464 injury collisions in Scottish Borders's highway authority area, 261 of them fatal or serious. These are the published STATS19 figures, which also include motorways and trunk roads in the area.
- Injury collisions
- 464
- 2021–2025
- Casualties
- 686
- People injured or killed
- Fatal collisions
- 33
- 228 serious, 203 slight
- Vulnerable road users
- 38%
- of people killed or seriously injured
Collisions by year and severity
In 2025, Scottish Borders recorded 51 fatal or serious collisions, 2% below its average of 52 a year over 2021–2025.
| Year | Fatal | Serious | Slight | Total | Casualties | Fatal or serious |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | 46 | 48 | 102 | 140 |
54
|
| 2022 | 8 | 42 | 44 | 94 | 137 |
50
|
| 2023 | 5 | 57 | 45 | 107 | 156 |
62
|
| 2024 | 6 | 38 | 43 | 87 | 141 |
44
|
| 2025 | 6 | 45 | 23 | 74 | 112 |
51
|
| 2021–2025 | 33 | 228 | 203 | 464 | 686 | 261 |
Casualties by road user
686 people were hurt in these collisions: 39 killed, 288 seriously injured and 359 slightly injured. Pedestrians, pedal cyclists and motorcyclists made up 38% of those killed or seriously injured.
| Road user | Casualties | Share | Killed or seriously injured | Share of KSI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pedestrians | 59 | 8.6% | 32 | 9.8% |
| Pedal cyclists | 25 | 3.6% | 14 | 4.3% |
| Motorcyclists | 94 | 13.7% | 77 | 23.5% |
| All road users | 686 | 100% | 327 | 100% |
Roads with the most collisions
Classified roads in Scottish Borders, by injury collisions recorded on them in 2021–2025.
- A7 54 collisions · 29 fatal or serious
- A68 49 collisions · 35 fatal or serious
- A72 31 collisions · 17 fatal or serious
- A6105 24 collisions · 11 fatal or serious
- A1 24 collisions · 14 fatal or serious
- A698 23 collisions · 13 fatal or serious
- A708 15 collisions · 9 fatal or serious
- A697 14 collisions · 9 fatal or serious
- A701 14 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
- A703 13 collisions · 7 fatal or serious
Areas within Scottish Borders
Area pages with maps, hotspots and every collision, by collisions in 2021–2025.
How to get a formal collision extract from Scottish Borders
The council's road safety or traffic team holds the full police records for its area. A formal extract can add what the published data leaves out: contributory factors, the officer's description of each collision and the current year's provisional records. Developers, consultants and solicitors usually pay for it.
Check Scottish Borders's website for current fees, or contact its road safety team. Councils usually charge for extracts and send a quote before they start.
Source: Department for Transport road safety data (STATS19), 2021–2025, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Collisions are counted against the local highway authority area recorded by the police. Casualty severities are as recorded at the time and are not adjusted.