Establishing stable routes over high mobility networks is a challenging field and consequently brought the attention of a lot of current researchers. In this article, a new reactive routing protocol has been proposed which is considered as a major extension of both Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) and Mobility and Direction Aware AODV (MDA-AODV) prior routing protocols. It is named as Mobility Aware and Dual Phase Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector with Adaptive Hello Messages (MA-DP-AODV-AHM). It primarily concentrates on building routes considering vehicles’ speeds and direction of motion with respect to source vehicles, thereby establishing more stable routes and reducing the route breakages. Not only to this extent, but rather, we proposed an adaptive control packet announcement mechanism, which is directly connected to the periodic hello messages approach, with vehicles’ speeds, yielding a significant reduction in the amount of control overhead and congestion over the network. Moreover, the new protocol is proposed to alternate working among two phases, for the reason of guaranteeing the generation of efficient routes on a timely basis, which include MA-DP-AODV-AHM and AODV protocols. Our protocol has been evaluated in terms of control overhead, end-to-end delay, and energy consumption using QualNet simulator version 7.1 in which enormous simulations have been conducted under the base of vehicle density, packet rate, and constant bit rate connections. Simulation results summarize that MA-DP-AODV-AHM contributes efficiently in mitigating the network instability through generating effective stable routes and reducing link failures. Furthermore, it has proved its superiority over AODV and MDA-AODV.