A recording device of a vehicle status is provided to record an event and an accident of a vehicle by photographing and recording surrounding circumstances and storing and transmitting the information regardless of a running or parking state. A recording device of a vehicle status comprises the followings: a sensor unit(21-24) generating a signal of an event about vehicle appearance when a vehicle is running or parking; a camera unit(160) generating a video signal by photographing surroundings corresponding to the signal of the sensor unit; an audio unit(140) recording a surrounding audio signal corresponding to the signal of the sensor unit; a recording unit(170) recording the video and the audio signal; a communication module(130) transmitting the video and the audio signal to a preset external terminal; a monitor(120) displaying the video signal; a GPS(150) supplying a standard index of recording time and place of the video and the audio signal; and a control unit(110) controlling activation of the camera unit and the audio unit, and controlling storing and transmitting of the video and the audio signal.