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Traffic congestion is a common transportation problem around the globe, especially in populated cities, which leads to the issues of traffic safety and its management. A major cause of accidental deaths on the road is due to either the traffic-mismanagement or the absence of quick medical assistance. This work presents a TestBed that is designed and implemented along with the prototype application to provide a solution of traffic safety-and-management using Vehicular Ad hoc Network and Internet-of-Things. The application detects and assesses the severity of accidents with the help of an on-board unit, deployed inside the vehicle. When accident happens, it sends a message to control-room, where a server determines the position of an incident and the nearest hospital to request a quick medical assistance. In order to clear the route to the incident-location, the application in the ambulance generates alert …