Road users lack a medium where they can report road incidents and complaints directly to
the authorities concerned. The authorities lack concrete evidence to solve road incidents since
there is no proper road incident reporting system. Road incidents happen everywhere but the
witnesses to these road incidents lack a convenient and efficient method to report them. The
frequency of road incidents that go unnoticed in Kenya is on the rise especially the hit and run
incidents. Since there is no medium to report them, they go unaccounted for and hence the
parties responsible are never held responsible. The witnesses to road incidents would rather leave
the incident to chance rather than walking to the authorities responsible to report it because they
have no convenience of reporting these incidents at the touch of a button. With the increase of
smart phones in Kenya, an opportunity exists because of the untapped gap of incident reporting.
The proposed solution was to develop a mobile application that can be used to report road
incidents. The mobile application was developed on the Android platform. It was developed
concurrently with a web application developed in PHP and JavaScript languages to supplement
its functionality. The testing of the application was successful and it was strongly agreed by the
respondents that the system would be effective in reporting road incidents. Thus the mobile
application comes in handy to provide a solution to the way users report road incidents. The
recommendations made by users were used to improve the application. The application will
allow users to report incidents that happen on the roads. Based on the overall statistics of user
testing and evaluation, it is safe to say that the application fulfills its simplicity and usability
requirement. Based on the questionnaire responses, the application is generally considered easy
to understand and use. The implication of the results of application testing is that the application
will come in handy in reporting road incidents thus improving road safety.