To exactly promptly carry out negotiation, verification, and the like and to guarantee justification of payment for insurance money and the like by objectively grasping the occurrent state or the occurrent cause of a traffic accident.

This accident state recognizing equipment for a car 1 is provided with a photographing means 2 for photographing the external state of a car boxy, a memory means 3 for memorizing an image photographed by means of the photographing means 2, an accident occurrence detecting means 4 for detecting the fact of the occurrence of an accident, and a storage operation suspending means 5 for suspending the storage operation by means of the memory means 3 based on a signal from the accident occurrence detecting means 4. The memory means 3 uses the same region of the information memory part several times.