Road Safety - locations of concern
The Council maintains an accident database which contains information on injury accidents across the County. This information is supplied to us by the Police. We constantly review this information and where specific problems are identified we seek to make safety improvements.
Safety is a high priority for the public too and we often receive phone calls and e-mail telling us about locations of concern or that are considered dangerous. Bedfordshire Highways or other appropriate Council officers will investigate these concerns and will seek ways in which safety can be improved.
As well as concerns about the safety of individual road junctions, there are requests for pedestrian crossing facilities, speed restraint measures (such as road humps), and minor issues such as new warning signs.
If you would like to report a junction, which you feel is dangerous, or if you feel speed restriction measures could benefit a certain road, please use the contact details above and register your concern
We receive a large number of requests for all of the above mentioned measures but are not able to progress every request immediately. We have to prioritise schemes and those where accidents have happened that we know we can prevent will be given higher priority.
Limited funding means that we are always in a position where our Safety Engineering budget is allocated to casualty sites.
However we appreciate that there are many locations where some minor improvements can make a big difference and so we look to maintenance and other budgets to see if some simple signing and or lining can make a difference.
We are always interested to hear about those locations that you feel are unsafe and could be improved so please let us know.
Highways Helpdesk,
Bedfordshire County Council,
6th Floor,
County Hall,
BEDFORD,
MK42 9AP