An internet of things for prevention and control of road traffic accidents, consisting of a management center processing device, a vehicle entrance and exit processing device, and a vehicle-mounted wireless sensor device, the latter including a single-chip microcomputer, a GPS module, a wireless transceiver module, a collision sensor, a voice and display reminder module, and the like. A road traffic accident prevention and control method, comprising a management center processing module, a vehicle entrance and exit processing module, and a vehicle-mounted wireless sensor processing module, the latter including a vehicle distance, vehicle speed, abnormal parking calculation and processing module, collision perception and processing module, voice and Display reminder module, exchange information module and so on. The present invention can effectively prevent and control malignant traffic accidents on modern highways, and can directly send accident information to follow-up vehicles within a very short time after accidents occur to prevent serial collisions, and continue to send information to various toll stations and management centers, and timely Rescue measures can be taken to remind the driver of the distance and speed of the vehicle in time, effectively avoiding the occurrence of vicious traffic accidents on the expressway.