Among other things, a documentation of a crash involving a vehicle is generated automatically. Telematics data is received that has been produced by one or more sensors associated with a telematics device at the vehicle. Based on the telematics data, a vehicle crash period is determined that begins at a start time and ends at an end time of the vehicle crash. Based on the telematics data, one or more metrics are determined associated with the vehicle during the vehicle crash period. Based on one or more metrics, a human-readable documentation of the vehicle crash is generated automatically.

A system for detecting a vehicular collision (i) receives occupant data from at least one internal sensor; (ii) receives external data from at least one external sensor; (iii) determines positional information for at least one occupant of a vehicle; and (iv) generates a virtual reconstruction of the vehicle collision. The virtual reconstruction indicates a severity of vehicle damage and a severity of injury to the at least one occupant caused by the vehicle collision. The system may also utilized vehicle occupant positional data, and internal and external sensor data to detect potential imminent vehicle collisions, take corrective actions, automatically engage autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle systems, and/or perform at least one action to reduce a severity of a potential injury.

An electronic device includes a sensor module, a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) module, a communication module, and a processor. The processor forms first communication connection to a first external electronic device worn by a user through the communication module. The processor attempts second communication connection to a second external electronic device when the user is confirmed as being aboard a vehicle through at least one of the sensor, GNSS, and communication modules. The processor transmits a trigger signal to the first and second external electronic devices upon sensing a collision of the vehicle through at least one of the sensor and GNSS modules after the second communication connection is formed. The processor receives information sensed by the first and second external electronic devices based on transmission of the trigger signal. The processor identifies information regarding the vehicle's accident caused by the collision based on the sensed information.

A vehicle surrounding environment monitoring apparatus includes an imaging device, a memory, a notifier, and a vehicle control processor. The imaging device acquires surrounding person facial information on the surrounding person. The memory stores occupant facial information on an occupant of the vehicle. The notifier issues a notification to one or both of the surrounding person and the occupant. The vehicle control processor performs a determination as to whether the surrounding person is the occupant by comparing the surrounding person facial information with the occupant facial information. The vehicle control processor causes the notifier to issue the notification to one or both of the surrounding person and the occupant when determining that the surrounding person is not the occupant. The vehicle control processor refrains from causing the notifier to issue the notification to the surrounding person when determining that the surrounding person is the occupant.

One example discloses a protection device, including: a wireless receiver; wherein the wireless receiver is configured to receive a command from a monitoring device; a protection element configured to be coupled to a first physical structure; wherein the monitoring device includes a sensor configured to predict a physical collision between the first physical structure and a second physical structure; wherein the monitoring device is configured to transmit the command in response to predicting the physical collision; a controller coupled to the wireless receiver and the protection element; wherein the controller is configured to activate the protection element in response to receiving the command; and wherein upon activation, the protection element is physically positioned between the first physical structure and the second physical structure.