EVACUATION TRAVELLING CONTROL DEVICE AND EVACUATION TRAVELLING CONTROL METHOD

An evacuation travelling control device has an evacuation direction judgment section for detecting an evacuation direction of an own vehicle during an evacuation travelling mode of the own vehicle and a light switching pattern generation section for generating a light pattern which relates to one or more combinations of lit and unlit states of lamps including direction indicators mounted on the own vehicle when informing the evacuation direction of the own vehicle detected by the evacuation direction judgment section to drivers of other vehicles and pedestrians around the own vehicle.