Accurate location sensing for communicating data to transportation infrastructure server

A method comprising:

• receiving, by a system comprising a processor, from a mobile device, a first report of a road-related incident comprising another vehicle, wherein the first report comprises captured image data of the another vehicle, first timestamp data representing a time associated with a detecting of the road-related incident by the mobile device, and location data of the mobile device, and wherein the first report of the road-related incident further indicates that the another vehicle is on a side of a road;
• and
• in response to the receiving,
• analyzing, by the system, the first report of the road-related incident with respect to the location data, the first timestamp data, and the captured image data of the another vehicle;
• responsive to the first report, instructing, by the system, a second vehicle to capture second image data and to transmit the second image data in a second report of the road-related incident with second timestamp data, wherein the second timestamp data comprises a later timestamp relative to the first timestamp data;
• analyzing, by the system, the second report comprising the second timestamp data with respect to the first report comprising the first timestamp data to allow the system to determine an elapsed time between first timestamp data and the second timestamp data, and to determine that the another vehicle is in distress, wherein the elapsed time is greater than a threshold time period;
• and
• facilitating, by the system, an action based on the analyzing indicating that the another vehicle is in distress.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a mobile device, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• capturing one or more images of another vehicle to generate captured image data of the another vehicle;
• detecting a road-related incident comprising the another vehicle based on the captured image data of the another vehicle, wherein the detecting the road-related incident further comprises determining that the another vehicle is on a side of a road;
• obtaining, via the mobile device, location data of the mobile device with respect to the road-related incident;
• and
• reporting the road-related incident via a first report to a transportation-related entity for analysis, the first report comprising the captured image data of the another vehicle, first timestamp data representing a time associated with the detecting, and the location data via wireless communication by the mobile device, wherein the first report is utilized as a basis by the transportation-related entity to instruct a second vehicle to capture second image data and to transmit the second image data in a second report of the road-related incident with second timestamp data, and wherein the second timestamp data comprises a later timestamp relative to the first timestamp data to allow the transportation-related entity to determine an elapsed time between first timestamp data and the second timestamp data for use in determining that the another vehicle is in distress, wherein the elapsed time is greater than a threshold time period.