This is the author version of an article published as: Krishnaswamy, Shonali and Loke, Seng Wai and Rakotonirainy, Andry and Horovitz, Osnat and Gaber, Mohamed Medhat (2005) Towards situation-awareness and ubiquitous data mining for road safety: Rationale and architecture for a compelling application. In Proceedings Intelligent Vehicles and Road Infrastructure Conference, Melbourne, Victoria. Copyright 2005 (please consult author) Accessed from http://eprints.qut.edu.au