ABSTRACT

Road traffic accident situation in Nigeria has been alarming and particularly disturbing ever since the first auto crash was recorded. Transportation safety implies the prevention of accidents and the minimization of accident losses. People have died prematurely and properties worth several millions of Naira have been lost as a result of road traffic accident. Social cost in terms of trauma that is, loss of closed relatives, associates, friends, father, mother has eventually lead to psychological depression. As Nigeria becomes more mobile, the possibility of accidents resulting in the death of people and the destruction of property on our highway becomes more of a critical factor. Accidents cause significant losses to present and future productive manpower of our country as well as in many cases, profound social problems, deaths or serious injury. Accident scene capturing and recording information system serves as a warehouse of data where accident cases are been reported and alert is been sent to the Nigerian Road safety for necessary action.  I was motivated to embark on this research because if accident scene capturing and recording is not properly secured and monitored the system will report false alert by the intruder, lack of accountability, reckless driving, loss of track of record, bulk paper work and difficult access to information. The system was achieved by developing a platform for an automated accident scene capturing and recording system, creates a platform that upload accident in the system, build a database structure used to store data of the users, design a platform that create user in the system, create a platform view accident details in the system. This research was realized through the adoption of primary and secondary sources of data collection which includes interview, observation, questionnaire, the internet and journals and through the adoption of Structured System Analysis and Design Methodology (SSADM). The system is implemented using Microsoft.VisualBasic.Net and Microsoft Access as the database.