Road safety

We work as a member of the Scottish Borders Road Safety Working Group to address road safety issues, together with other groups such as:

  • police
  • fire
  • camera partnership

Road safety information

There are a number of places to go to get information on road safety, while there are also free courses available to improve your driving skills:

Report a road safety concern

Certain major roads in the Scottish Borders known as trunk roads are not our responsibility. Road safety concerns regarding trunk roads should be reported to Transport Scotland's operating company BEAR Scotland.

Please report all other road safety concerns on Scottish Borders roads to our road safety team.

Report a trunk road safety concern Report a non-trunk road safety concern

Safer communities

Address: Council Headquarters
Newtown St. Boswells
Melrose
TD6 0SA

Telephone: 0300 100 1800