Server apparatus

A server apparatus comprising:

• a communicator configured to, upon occurrence of an accident involving multiple vehicles, communicate with peripheral vehicles or portable devices present in a peripheral area of a site of the accident, the peripheral vehicles including the multiple vehicles involved in the accident;
• a determination unit configured to determine, based on image data received from the peripheral vehicles or the portable devices, whether a first vehicle that lacks an emergency notification system is included in the multiple vehicles involved in the accident;
• a position data acquisition unit configured, in response to determining that the first vehicle that lacks the emergency notification system is included, to acquire first position data indicating a position of a second vehicle, which has issued an emergency notification, included in the multiple vehicles;
• an information provision request unit configured to request a base station covering an area including the position indicated by the acquired first position data to send an information provision request to vehicles or portable devices present in a set target area;
• an information collector configured to:
• collect first accident information from the peripheral vehicles or the portable devices present in the peripheral area;
• and
• collect information from the vehicles or the portable devices present in the set target area;
• an extractor configured to extract second accident information from the information collected from the vehicles or the portable devices present in the set target area based on second position data included in the information collected from the vehicles or the portable devices present in the set target area;
• and
• a notification unit configured to notify an emergency notification center of at least one of the first accident information collected by the information collector or the second accident information extracted by the extractor, as notification information.