Methods and systems for determining auto accidents using mobile phones and initiating emergency response

A method for providing automatic crash management (ACM), which comprises:

• enabling an ACM application on a mobile device;
• collecting data from a plurality of sensors associated with the mobile device;
• processing the data from the plurality of sensors with the ACM application;
• monitoring the processed data with accident detection logic of the ACM application running on the mobile device to determine whether a crash has been detected;
• determining a severity of the crash from the processed data with the ACM application;
• sending the determined severity to an off-board server;
• and
• automatically streaming the data from the plurality of sensors to the off-board server for further analysis upon detection of the crash.