A video image recording control apparatus comprising: an abnormality determination unit configured to perform at least one of (i) a process for determining that an abnormality has occurred in accordance with a result of detection in a sensor that detect an abnormality of a behavior of a vehicle, and (ii) a process for determining, based on video image data captured by an image pickup apparatus , that an abnormality has occurred when there is a possibility of contact with an obstacle or an accident to the vehicle; a recording processing unit configured to record video image data in a recording apparatus by a loop recording mode in which video image data captured by the image pickup apparatus is continuously recorded along the time while being overwritten and an event recording mode in which video image data captured by the image pickup apparatus when the abnormality has been determined is recorded separately from the loop recording mode while prohibiting data rewriting; and a recording controller configured to, when the number of times of data rewriting for the recording apparatus has exceeded a first threshold which is smaller than a restriction value of the number of times of data rewriting of the recording apparatus , set one of a prohibition flag and a suppression flag to ON state without restricting the recording processing unit to record by the event recording mode, prohibit the recording processing unit to record by the loop recording mode when the prohibition flag is in the ON state, and with the aim of reducing the amount of data to be recorded, control bit rate, resolution, frame rate, or compression rate of the video image data to be recorded by the recording processing unit in the loop recording mode when the suppression flag is in the ON state. an abnormality determination unit configured to perform at least one of (i) a process for determining that an abnormality has occurred in accordance with a result of detection in a sensor that detect an abnormality of a behavior of a vehicle, and (ii) a process for determining, based on video image data captured by an image pickup apparatus , that an abnormality has occurred when there is a possibility of contact with an obstacle or an accident to the vehicle; a recording processing unit configured to record video image data in a recording apparatus by a loop recording mode in which video image data captured by the image pickup apparatus is continuously recorded along the time while being overwritten and an event recording mode in which video image data captured by the image pickup apparatus when the abnormality has been determined is recorded separately from the loop recording mode while prohibiting data rewriting; and a recording controller configured to, when the number of times of data rewriting for the recording apparatus has exceeded a first threshold which is smaller than a restriction value of the number of times of data rewriting of the recording apparatus , set one of a prohibition flag and a suppression flag to ON state without restricting the recording processing unit to record by the event recording mode, prohibit the recording processing unit to record by the loop recording mode when the prohibition flag is in the ON state, and with the aim of reducing the amount of data to be recorded, control bit rate, resolution, frame rate, or compression rate of the video image data to be recorded by the recording processing unit in the loop recording mode when the suppression flag is in the ON state. <EOS>