Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is the research topic of great magnitude of recent times because of its extraordinary characteristics such as topology and unsurprising portability. VANET catches the great attention of both academia and industry due to its potential applications of real life. As a result of the high growth rate in the population, issues related to traffic control is emerging exponentially. Moreover, the gain in traffic has also enlarged the number of traffic accidents and roads

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... are becoming unsafe day by day; due to the road accidents and deaths are reporting at a very high rate. In this paper, the introduction of VANET along with its architecture, characteristics and communication types is presented. Furthermore, the main goal of this paper is to exploit the maximum safety applications of the VANET to provide safety against different misfortunes like accidents etc. on the roads. It is concluded from contemporary literature, the implementation of VANET is promising to decrease the substantial rate of road accidents.